Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:27:13 -0800 | From | Phil Oester <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] misleading error message |
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 11:29:20PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >> This may be a BUG REPORT, as I see it, allthough more experienced Linux users > > >> might think differently: > > >> > > >> I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my > > >> legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message: > > >> "FATAL: module ip_tables not found" . > > > > > >In my oppinion the message is perfectly clear. You told modprobe to load a > > >module, the file was not found so it is forced to give up - and that's > > >exactely what it told you. > > > > So how would you go about finding out whether something is compiled-in? > > > Personally I'd just go check my kernels .config
Or adjust your (broken) firewall script to do something like:
[ -f /proc/net/ip_tables_names ] || modprobe ip_tables
Phil
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