As the title says. It doesn't seem to be part of FHS, and I could not find much in google. I'm wondering which applications write there, on which occasions, and for what purposes.
edit: In response to the comments:
I am seeing it on a fresh install of Kubutnu 20.04, while inspecting it from another Linux. I haven't booted it yet. It is listed as drwxrwsrwt 2 root avahi-autoipd and is empty at the moment.
I'll run the diagnostics when I boot it, and will update.
Update:
- From inside the system, it's listed as
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie. sudo dpkg -S /var/metricsdoesn't find anything.sudo lsof +D /var/metricsreturns empty.sudo find /var/metrics -print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty filereturns/var/metrics: setgid, sticky, directoryand nothing else. The folder is empty.
Doesn't look like it's being used yet on my system. It's just there.
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