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Date:      Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:20:04 GMT
From:      Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/132260: dhcpd(8) pid not stored in documented location
Message-ID:  <200910221720.n9MHK4gf046681@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR docs/132260; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>,
 feenberg@nber.org
Subject: Re: docs/132260: dhcpd(8) pid not stored in documented location
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:13:53 -0500

 The reason that it puts the pidfile in /var/run/dhcpd is that you are  
 running with either paranoia or chmodded as the dhcpd user.  In either  
 case it can't write to /var/run as it starts up as the dhcpd user.
 
 If you look at the ownership of /var/run/dhcpd you'll see it is owned  
 by dhcpd:dhcpd
 
 If you run as root, or without paranoia it will in fact create the  
 pidfile in /var/run/
 
 I suppose we could patch the man pages depending on the compilation  
 options or something.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Josh Paetzel
 
 
 
 



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