[TriLUG] Changing Red Hat security settings

Jeff Tickle jtickle at jtsoft.net
Wed Mar 2 14:54:37 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 14:48 -0500, William Sutton wrote:
> # iptables -L
> /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: 
> init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod 
> /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod 
> ip_tables failed
> iptables v1.2.5: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? 
> (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.

Are you sure you're using iptables and not ipchains?  also was this done
as root?

-Jeff




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