ISC-DHCPD-Server

[Adam Weinberger]

> On Apr 10, 2019, at 07:38, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> At the end of the install, it says that dhcpd will run with it's root at:  /var/db/dhcpd
> I'm curious.  Is there some security reason that I'm missing?  Why wouldn't this be in:  /usr/local/var/db/dhcpd  ?
> I'm very happy with the ongoing push to keep everything that isn't OS in the /usr/local hierarchy.  Quite frankly, it just makes sense kind of like "It just works".  :D
> I'm hoping that, someday, even mail will be there but I understand there's some history there.
> Thank you!

Hi Paul,

For security reasons, many users mount /usr/local read-only. We assume that /var is RW, so files that are expected to change are supposed to be there instead of under /usr/local.

# Adam


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