Bug 7487 – The kmod script doesn't check to see if /proc/modules exist

Bug 7487 - The kmod script doesn't check to see if /proc/modules exist

Summary:	The kmod script doesn't check to see if /proc/modules exist

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 5824

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	modutils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael K. Johnson
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Reported:	1999-12-01 12:28 EST by vjanelle
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-02-17 05:37:35 EST
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Description vjanelle 1999-12-01 12:28:22 EST

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 1999-12-03 19:21:59 EST

Fixed in modutils 2.3.7.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-04 17:29:59 EST

Assigned to dledford

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-02-17 05:37:59 EST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5824 ***

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