dash/doc/release-notes-pr12255.md

systemd init file

The systemd init file (contrib/init/dashd.service) has been changed to use /var/lib/dashd as the data directory instead of ~dash/.dash. This change makes Dash Core more consistent with other services, and makes the systemd init config more consistent with existing Upstart and OpenRC configs.

The configuration, PID, and data directories are now completely managed by systemd, which will take care of their creation, permissions, etc. See systemd.exec (5) for more details.

When using the provided init files under contrib/init, overriding the datadir option in /etc/dash/dash.conf will have no effect. This is because the command line arguments specified in the init files take precedence over the options specified in /etc/dash/dash.conf.