On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 18:38 -0800, Mick Mearns wrote: > Hello list; > I just now upgraded firestarter to the 1.0 rpm. > I now get : > Error reading /proc/net/ip_conntrack: No such file or directory > Error reading /proc/net/ip_conntrack: No such file or directory The firestarter-1.0.0-1.rhfc3.nr from newrpms works-for-me. ... > Sure enough the file is not there. > Should I create it? Only by loading the correct module. Things in /proc are creatures of the kernel. $ /sbin/lsmod | grep ip_ ip_conntrack_irc 71921 0 ip_conntrack_ftp 72561 0 ip_conntrack 40693 6 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp,ipt_state ip_tables 16193 10 ipt_ttl,ipt_limit,iptable_mangle,ipt_LOG,ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat,ipt_TOS,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter $ ll /proc/net/ip* -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip6_flowlabel -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 20:53 /proc/net/ip_conntrack -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_conntrack_expect -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_mr_cache -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_mr_vif -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_tables_matches -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_tables_names -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ip_tables_targets -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 29 22:27 /proc/net/ipv6_route Try "modeprobe ip_conntrack" as root. Phil
