udev strange-ness

[Greg KH]

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