Re: possible bug in call to libipt_state

["Ukeme Noah" <ukeme.noah@gmail.com>]

What steps did you follow to debug your script before this conclusion.

ukeme noah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Stromer" <filter@stevenstromer.com>
To: <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:12 PM
Subject: possible bug in call to libipt_state


> Hi,
>
> On FC8, kernel 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 (and earlier, actually), iptables v1.3.8, I 
> am receiving the following error when trying to load rules from a shell 
> script:
>
> Couldn't load match '-state':/lib64/iptables/libipt_-state.so: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> In fact, there is no such file or directory, because the call is being 
> incorrectly made to 'libipt_-state.so', instead of 'libipt_state.so':
>
> # ls -la /lib64/iptables | grep state
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6888 2007-11-05 12:08 libip6t_state.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6888 2007-11-05 12:08 libipt_state.so
>
> I am not at all certain whether this is a problem in the Fedora iptables 
> package, the kernel, or iptables itself. If anyone could help me locate 
> the source of the call, and could also confirm that this really is a bug, 
> I'll happily report it!
>
> Thanks,
> Steven Stromer
>
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