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Re: /var/db/btdev.xml (from source-changes)



On Jul 28, 2006, at 12:24 AM, Iain Hibbert wrote:

I'm fairly easy as to the location, though I dont really consider XML
to be humanly readable so I left it out of /etc.
Also, just a nit, XML property list file names should end in  
".plist", not ".xml" :-)
Is all of /var considered ephemeral or is it just /var/db? In reality how
likely is it that this will be lost? (do people use mfs for /var?)
Actually, there's lots of important stuff in /var.

According to hier(7):

db/ miscellaneous automatically generated system-spe- cific database files, and persistent files used in
                           the maintenance of third party software.

pkg default location for metadata related to third party software packages. See pkg_install(1) for more details of the NetBSD Packages Collection, or pkgsrc.
So, seems like /var/db is a fine place to put your BT device  
connection information.  I don't see any need for it to change  
(except for the file name to end in ".plist" :-)
The only part of /var that is cleared out at reboot is /var/run.

-- thorpej




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