ISC-DHCPD-Server
Paul Pathiakis
pathiaki2 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 10 15:32:54 UTC 2019
Ahhh... makes sense. (aka security... :D )
Thank you, Adam.
P.
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 10:53:26 AM EDT, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
> 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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