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Bug#782057: arpwatch problems



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Hi,

sorry for reviving such an old bug report.  I recently took over
maintenance of arpwatch as part of the pkg-security-team.


In your bug report you described two different problems.

1. Arpwatch does not start properly after startup, requires manual
   restart

Is this issue still present?  If it is, could you check if version
2.1a15-3, which was just uploaded to experimental, fixes the problem?
This new version has native systemd unit files and the startup is quite
different.


2. The arp.dat database was cleared (at least once)

Has this happened more often and/or can you reproduce this problem? I
can think of two reasons why this might have happened:

* two arpwatch instances are accidentally started using the same
  database file and there is a race condition with reading/writing the
  file
* the postinstall script, which used to copy the database around until
  version 2.1a15-1.3, might have cleared it (e.g. due to a
  dpkg-reconfigure)

Neither these two problems can happen any more with version 2.1a15-3,
but maybe your problem is something else.  If you have any further
information please let me know.


Thank you
Lukas
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