From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: root <root@ohlone.ucsc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net-pf-10, 2.6.1
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:51:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040130085136.C9894@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AmU8a-00005E-00@localhost>; from root@ohlone.ucsc.edu on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:36:28AM -0800, root wrote:
> Is there any guidance about this little annoyance yet? Most of the
> advice I've seen (on other lists) suggests putting the following in
> modprobe.conf:
>
> install net-pf-10 /bin/true
You want:
alias net-pf-10 off
> Almost all of the error messages from modprobe come exactly on the
> heels of a call from cron to run exim. But why should exim spawn an
> attempt to load this module? And why just with kernel 2.6.1?
Because its trying to see if the kernel supports IPv6 by creating an
IPv6 socket. Since the IPv6 module is not available, it correctly
fails and uses IPv4 instead.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-30 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-30 8:36 net-pf-10, 2.6.1 root
2004-01-30 8:51 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-01-31 17:00 ` Greg Norris
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401301532260.9270-100000@gaia.cela.pl>
2004-01-31 23:35 ` Jim McCloskey
2004-02-01 2:21 ` Steve Youngs
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2004-02-01 9:28 Jim McCloskey
2004-02-01 9:46 ` Kiko Piris
2004-02-01 20:31 ` Jim McCloskey
2004-02-01 9:59 ` Russell King
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