[arch-dev-public] Fwd: NetworkManager starts dhclient with a bad path to lease file

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Thu Nov 1 18:05:55 EDT 2012


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com> wrote:
> should we change dhcp and dhclient to use /var/lib instead of
> /var/state? AFAICT it's the only package using the /var/state
> directory. Context below.

Seems reasonable to me. /var/state is not a standard dir afaik, and
/var/lib should contain "variable state information" according to FHS
(which I shamelessly cite exactly when it supports my view).

-t


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