On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:47:21PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Why is bash accessing iptables, and arping on behalf of udev? > > I expect that the dhclient-eth0.conf file is just from an inherited file > handle (although I don't know why it was opened, I don't have dhclient > installed any more, maybe a bug in hotplug). Odds are you have a rule that renames a network device, which causes the script in /etc/dev.d/net/hotplug.dev to be run by udev, which calls back into the hotplug network script file. Ah, what a tangled web... greg k-h
