Ahhh... makes sense. (aka security... :D )
Thank you, Adam.
P.
On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 10:53:26 AM EDT, Adam Weinberger
<ad...@adamw.org> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 07:38, Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-ports
> <freebsd-ports@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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