Tangle - cookie keys file

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Hal Murray via devel writes:
> > Where should we put the file used to store the key used to make cookies?  It 
> > gets read at startup and updated daily.
> 
> Nowhere.  Those keys are ephemeral and shouldn't be stored at all,
> except maybe for debugging.

I think you and Hal may be talking about different things. But I'll let you
two work that out.  Play nice.

> > Fedora and Debian put things like that in /var/lib/ntp/
> > NetBSD and FreeBSD put them in /var/db/ntp/
> 
> Nope, the place for that sort of stuff is /var/run.

Ah, yes, I had forgotten.  I think you're right about this.
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