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From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] misleading error message
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:27:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041130222713.GA8501@linuxace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411302328450.3635@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-30 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-30 19:45 PROBLEM: misleading error message Bebel
2004-11-30 20:56 ` Misleading " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 23:36   ` Greg KH
2004-11-30 21:58 ` PROBLEM: misleading " Jesper Juhl
2004-11-30 22:10   ` [RFC] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-30 22:29     ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-30 22:27       ` Phil Oester [this message]
2004-11-30 22:29       ` Lee Revell
2004-11-30 22:30       ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-02 12:33         ` David Ford
2004-12-02 23:40           ` Ken Moffat
2004-12-03 10:35             ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-05  0:32           ` Horst von Brand

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