Re: [Shorewall-users] shorewall start with modules disabled issues a warning

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On 1/29/11 10:16 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the perl code in Config.pm does not handle the case where the kernel
> does not support modules.  so when starting up shorewall, `lsmod` is
> executed unconditionally which results in a warning:
> Opening /proc/modules: No such file or directory
> 
> the shell code in lib.common however does handle this by making sure
> at least one module dir exists first.  the perl code seems to lack
> this simple check.
> 
> using shorewall-4.4.15.1, but current git tree seems to be unchanged.
> -mike

Thanks for the report. This defect will be corrected in Shorewall 4.4.17
Beta 3.

-Tom
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