[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq's use of /var/lib/misc/

[Simon Kelley]

Jima wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>  I've been asked by RedHat's selinux policy guy to not use
> /var/lib/misc/ for dnsmasq's leases file.  My first instinct is to use
> /var/lib/dnsmasq/, but I wondered if anyone (especially Simon!) had any
> commentary on this.

I chose /var/lib/misc originally for no good reason, I just looked for a
directory which already existed so that "make install" would be simpler.
I'm sure that /var/lib/dnsmasq is more technically correct, but
unilaterally making the change in the distributed tarball will break
existing installations and upset people.

For distro packages, I can't any reason not to change: a little script
which moves any existing leasefile as part of the upgrade is all that's
required.

As I'm sure you're aware the default leasefile location is specified in
src/config.h

If you want to avoid any patches to the distributed source, an
alternative is to invoke dnsmasq from the package-provided startup
script as "dnsmasq -l /var/lib/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.leases" I use a similar
technique in the debian package to change the default user from "nobody"
to "dnsmasq" without having to maintain a patch.


Cheers,

Simon.

> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407901
> 
>  Thanks!
> 
>      Jima
> 
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