[CentOS] CentOS 6: wpa_supplicant, unexpected behavior

Mon Aug 29 22:35:18 UTC 2011
Michael D. Berger <m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com>

On my CentOS 6:
   chkconfig --list wpa_supplicant
shows off at all levels, which is confirmed by examination of:
   /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant
but ps -ef shows the process running.
Furthermore, repeated
   cd /etc/init.d/
   ./wpa_supplicant stop
appears to succeed, but the process continues to run.
These observations were made at levels 3 and 5.

Thanks in advance for your explanation.

Mike.