iptables restart hangs
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Feb 22 21:44:23 UTC 2005
David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:54 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>>David Cary Hart wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 14:35 -0500, Chris Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>[root at sea-fw1 ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables condrestart
>>>
>
>>Or "/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables restart", which is sort of the same thing.
>>
>>"Linux: There's more than one way to do it. Egads!" :-)
>
>
> Is his command line ("condrestart") valid? I never heard of that one
> before.
Yes. "condrestart" basically checks for the existence of a lock file.
If it exists, it does a restart. If there's no lock file, it does
nothing. In other words, "If it's running, restart it. If it's not,
don't do anything."
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