[Bug 222151] net/dhcpd doesn't start without discouraged -c flag

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222151

--- Comment #3 from Nikola Kolev <koue at chaosophia.net> ---
According to the manul page:

-c config-file
    Use an alternate configuration file, config-file. Because of the importance
of using the same lease database at all times when running dhcpd in production,
this option should be used only for testing database files in a non-production
environment.

dhcpd daemon is ported from OpenBSD. On OpenBSD by default the configuration
file is /etc/dhcpd.conf. On FreeBSD by default the configuration file is
/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf or ${PREFIX}/etc/dhcpd.conf if ${PREFIX} has
different value. This parameter can be changed by 'dhcpd_flags' in
/etc/rc.conf. The manual page recommends to use single configuration file
because of the lease database. If using default dhcpd flags on FreeBSD it will
always use ${PREFIX}/etc/dhcpd.conf and there will be no problem like mixing
lease database.

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