Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] iptstate running continuously

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Dominic,

> On my DL machines (1.6.0-RC1, 32-bit server) iptstate seems to run 
> continuously (and use significant CPU resource), outputting to tty7.
> 
> Is this by design? Looking at man page I think iptstate should run only 
> when called. If I kill it will I break something?

iptstate (as other programs) can be called indirectly by init from 
/etc/inittab. As I can see now, in /etc-cd/inittab is:

> 8:2345:respawn:env - TERM=linux /bin/procinfo -f -F /dev/tty8
> #7:2345:respawn:env - TERM=linux /usr/sbin/iptstate -r 5 > /dev/tty7 < /dev/tty7

...so start iptstate from inittab is commented out. This line is appended by 
build/scripts/iptstate in install phase.

But as I remember, some time ago this line was active (not commented out). If 
You changed in this time something in this file (i.e. commented out start of 
daemontools) and saved your configuration, You have your own changed copy of 
this file in /shm/etc-mods probably with old, uncommented start of iptstate.

You can edit /etc/inittab and comment out start of iptstate on console7, as is 
now in default inittab. You can remove file /shm/etc-mods/inittab and in etc 
you will see initial/default inittab file.

Regards

-- 
Andrzej Odyniec