Bug 68647

Installed net/isc-dhcp3-server from the port with the default options DHCP_PARANOIA and DHCP_JAIL. When the server is started for the first time, with the dhcp_chuser option selected in the config, the pid dir /var/run/dhcpd is created, but the pidfile is not written to it, even though the server is running.  chown-ing the pid dir to dhcpd:wheel allows the pid file to be written.

Sample output:


root@erwin:/root# ps ax | grep dhcp
57509  ??  Ss     0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -cf /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf -lf /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf /var/run/dhcpd/dhcpd.pid
57511  p1  RV     0:00.00 grep dhcp (csh)

root@erwin:/root# ls -la /var/run
total 116
drwxr-xr-x   7 root      wheel       512 Jul  3 05:28 .
drwxr-xr-x  23 root      wheel       512 May 31 04:08 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         4 Jun 10 00:31 cron.pid
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel     65536 Jun 10 00:31 dev.db
drwxr-xr-x   2 root      wheel       512 Jul  3 05:28 dhcpd
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel     14302 Jun 10 00:30 dmesg.boot
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         4 Jun 10 00:31 inetd.pid
srw-rw-rw-   1 root      wheel         0 Jun 10 00:30 log
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         4 Jun 10 00:31 mountd.pid
drwxr-xr-x   2 munin     wheel       512 Jul  3 05:25 munin
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         6 Jun 27 21:09 named.pid
srw-------   1 root      wheel         0 Jun 27 21:09 ndc
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel        20 Jun 27 21:11 nmbd.pid
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         3 Jun 10 00:31 ntpd.pid
drwxrwx---   2 root      network     512 Oct 10  2002 ppp
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel        20 Jun 27 21:11 smbd.pid
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         4 Jun 10 00:31 sshd.pid
drwx------   4 root      wheel       512 Dec 13  2003 sudo
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel         4 Jun 10 00:30 syslog.pid
drwxrwxr--   2 upclient  upclient    512 Jun 10 00:31 upclient
-rw-r--r--   1 root      wheel       968 Jul  2 19:17 utmp
s---------   1 root      wheel         0 Jun 10 00:31 yppasswdsock

root@erwin:/root# ls -la /var/run/dhcpd/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jul  3 05:28 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  512 Jul  3 05:28 ..

root@erwin:/root# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh stop
dhcpd is not running.

root@erwin:/root# killall dhp

root@erwin:/root# chown dhcpd:wheel /var/run/dhcpd/

root@erwin:/root# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd.sh start
Starting dhcpd.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc14
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Wrote 1 leases to leases file.
Listening on BPF/dc0/08:00:2b:86:69:bd/192.168.100.0/24
Sending on   BPF/dc0/08:00:2b:86:69:bd/192.168.100.0/24
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net

root@erwin:/root# ls -la /var/run/dhcpd/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x  2 dhcpd  wheel  512 Jul  3 05:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  7 root   wheel  512 Jul  3 05:32 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 dhcpd  wheel    6 Jul  3 05:34 dhcpd.pid

Fix: 

Change ownership of the piddir to the dhcpd user