-----Original Message----- From: Juan Alberto Cirez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (clug-talk) Stuck with RH9 iptables install::Ok. Now we're getting somewhere
> Ok... > Now we know the problem is with the script itself. > First, try loading the offending module by hand e.i /sbin/modprobe <module_name> > If you get a complain, then you have two options. Recompile the kernel, > or comment out the line where said module is requested. > About the script itself--this is a long shot--make sure you don't have > foreign characters mixed with the commands. If you simply downloaded > this script from the 'net, that happens sometimes. Open the script file > with vi/vim and have a look... > Next, run the script again, copy and paste all the errors and post > it--All of them... Juan, Thank you very much for your time and attention. I thought I was going nuts, and probably drove some of my respondents nuts in the process... The culprit was the line termination character (not even sure whether it was \n or \r\n) that was altered from the original script by FTP. I had to use FTP to transmit the script from one Linux machine to another since the setup of the one running RH7.2 is very incomplete, and it is pretty much "an iseland in the sea". The FTP server runs on Win2K, and I FTPed the file in ASCII mode (should have used BIN, but I am only smart in 20/20 hindsight :-( ). Most likely, I lost the ending characters expected by Linux (like any Unix) when the file was received by Windoze machine. The giveaway was the fact that I could run each and every command (including the ill-fated "ip_nat_ftp" module - don't ask me why it did not show in the list... I must've got some brain damage already...) manually in the Terminal window, but the very same commands consistently failed when ran from the script. Anyways, I will have to "massage" my script tomorrow and hopefully this will be the end of this saga. Thank you and all others who tried to help me. Have a nice day (night?). Alex.
