Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:53:23 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ISC-DHCPD-Server Message-ID: <1C0D4177-B8DA-40D5-A276-E955FDAA9654@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <175903610.1098641.1554903534657@mail.yahoo.com> References: <175903610.1098641.1554903534657.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <175903610.1098641.1554903534657@mail.yahoo.com>
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> On Apr 10, 2019, at 07:38, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports= @freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > 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 t= he /usr/local hierarchy. Quite frankly, it just makes sense kind of like "I= t 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 ins= tead of under /usr/local. # Adam =E2=80=94 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org=
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