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From: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne_at_heuristicsystems.com.au>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 02:03:39 UTC

> You need to read hier(7).
> 
> ;)
> 
> ~Paul
> 

Thanks for the pointer.  I'd forgotten about that page <headslap>.

As I suspect its historical, I've deleted /var/empty and restarting 
services to see if its actually needed. It'll take a few days but so 
far, no impact.  If all ok, then I'll just sed /etc/master.passwd.
Cheers.