docs/132260: dhcpd pid not stored in documented location

[Giorgos Keramidas]

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

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org>
Cc: bug-followup at 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 at 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.