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diff --git a/sbin/routed/pathnames.h b/sbin/routed/pathnames.h
index b99bcc2..b833893 100644
--- a/sbin/routed/pathnames.h
+++ b/sbin/routed/pathnames.h
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@
/* All remotely requested trace files must either start with this prefix
* or be the same as the tracefile specified when the daemon was started.
* If this is a directory, routed will create log files in it. That
- * might be a security problem.
+ * might be a security problem. However, if bad guys can write in the
+ * default value, /etc, you have far worse security problems than anything
+ * this might do. In other words, it makes no sense to turn this off.
*
* Leave this undefined, and only the trace file originally specified
* when routed was started, if any, will be appended to.
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