On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 23:37, Michael Thompson wrote: > Every once in a while while I am running a script from cron, it outputs > this: > > iptables: Resource temporarily unavailable > > what is that about? Could it be that two processes are trying to access > IPTables? without any details about what the script is trying to do, i doubt anyone is going to provide a useful response to you. for example, if the script is trying to load a custom chain with 10,000 rules in it--this post from the archives may be similar to the problem you are experiencing: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter&m=110064111107583&w=2 -j -- "Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that." --The Simpsons