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Bug 7487

Summary: The kmod script doesn't check to see if /proc/modules exist
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: vjanelle
Component: modutilsAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description vjanelle 1999-12-01 17:28:22 UTC 
Most of our webservers do not have module support compiled it.  It slows
things down for some cases, and is a security risk.

I've noticed however that on the redhat based machines, there is an
excessive amount of email because the /etc/cron.d/kmod script does not
check for the existance of /proc/modules before executing.

Its 2 lines that need to be added to the script, and would most likely be
better run out of /etc/cron.hourly.
Comment 1 Keith Owens 1999-12-04 00:21:59 UTC 
Fixed in modutils 2.3.7.
Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-04 22:29:59 UTC 
Assigned to dledford
Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-02-17 10:37:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5824 ***