dhcpcd-discuss

Hi,

> I have the home folder for the dhcpcd user set as /var/lib/dhcpcd and
> hence the chroot for lives there. I set '--dbdir=/db' to get it under
> /var/lib/dhcpcd/db. When I start dhcpcd in a pristine installation /db
> gets created in addition to /var/lib/dhcpcd/db, while I would expect,
> that only /var/lib/dhcpcd/db gets created, since this is the only
> folder which is actually used. With a quick glance, /var/lib/dhcpcd/db
> gets created by ps_init which should not create /db but maybe there is
> also another place.

there is, probably it should be guarded as follows:

diff --git a/src/dhcpcd.c b/src/dhcpcd.c
index d8c102bb..ebde559c 100644
--- a/src/dhcpcd.c
+++ b/src/dhcpcd.c
@@ -2028,8 +2028,10 @@ printpidfile:
 		/* Ensure we have the needed directories */
 		if (mkdir(RUNDIR, 0755) == -1 && errno != EEXIST)
 			logerr("%s: mkdir `%s'", __func__, RUNDIR);
+#ifndef
 		if (mkdir(DBDIR, 0755) == -1 && errno != EEXIST)
 			logerr("%s: mkdir `%s'", __func__, DBDIR);
+#endif
 
 		if ((pid = pidfile_lock(ctx.pidfile)) != 0) {
 			if (pid == -1)



Cheers,
Julian


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