Re: [Sshguard-users] sshguard terminating

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

On 08/13/2015 21:28, jo...@te... wrote:
> I have a daemon manager that starts and stops sshguard.  This daemon
> manager is a library used by an application.  At one point in time a
> command is sent to this manager to terminate sshguard and that is
> executed in a thread.  Meanwhile, the application goes on by calling
> iptables.  From time to time, that iptables command fails with iptables
> reporting that there is a xlock on iptables since another application
> is using it.  

What operating system are you running? What version of SSHGuard? The fix
for the iptables lock landed shortly before 1.6.0.

> My question is: does sshguard execute any iptables command when
> terminating ?

Yes, it runs iptables to flush blocked addresses.

Best,
Kevin Zheng

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