Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 03:10:07 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/132260: dhcpd pid not stored in documented location Message-ID: <200903070310.n273A7Ii003199@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/132260; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/132260: dhcpd pid not stored in documented location Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:38:12 +0200 On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:40:57 GMT, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: >>Number: 132260 >>Category: docs >>Synopsis: dhcpd pid not stored in documented location >>Description: > The man page for dhcpd in /usr/local/man/cat8 includes the sentence: > > To restart dhcpd, send a SIGTERM (signal 15) to the process ID > contained in /var/run/dhcpd.pid, and then re-invoke dhcpd. > > however the default location for dhcpd.pid seems to be: > > /var/run/dhcpd/dhcpd.pid > Either change the documentation or the default location. Personally I > think the location is the problem. What is the point of a directory > with only one file? The directory doesn't hold the other dhcpd files > (leases). Hi Daniel, Which dhcpd port are you using? There is no dhcpd in the base system, so it would be nice to patch the correct port. Personally, I agree with you that the pidfile should be `/var/run/dhcpd.pid' and I can prepare a patch for the relevant port for review by our ports committers.
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