Re: Cannot Disable iptables on startup

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:11:47 -0500

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:53:11 +0100, Paul D wrote:

> I'm very sorry, Markku, but I'm not sure what you mean. This is a listing
> of my /var/lock/subsys directory:
> Can you tell me where I can get more information about the purpose of this
> directory?

This directory is where the scripts in "/etc/init.d/" store a cookie (an
empty file, maybe with a PID) whose presence is interpreted to mean that
we think the service should be running. Of course, if the service has
tanked, the cookie file doesn't get deleted...

HTH

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