>>>>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, William Hubbs wrote: >> Agreed, /var/db I guess is a Gentoo invention of some kind?
> No, it exists in FreeBSD too. As was pointed out to me, it exists in all three BSD variants [1,2,3]. Its purpose there is for "miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files". Ulrich [1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hier%287%29 [2] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier+7+NetBSD-current [3] https://man.openbsd.org/hier
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