Re: need modprobe.d syntax help

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 07/15/2011 08:14 PM, Katherine Lim wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Todd And Margo Chester <toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: On 07/15/2011 07:31 PM, William Scott wrote: On 16 July 2011 11:50, Todd And Margo Chester<toddandma...@gmail.com>  wrote: Hi All, Not having a good time researching this in Google, unless I want to do it in Ubuntu. I am trying to make the following command permanent:       modprobe   ip_nat_ftp Have a look in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config I should have said I am running SL6 x64. It is there.  But, running /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables throws an error on ip_nat_ftp if I do not previously load ip_nat_ftp with modprobe. What I am after is to load ip_nat_ftp at boot time with modprobe.d. A tape and gum approach would be to load ip_nat_ftp in /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables before it did anything with /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config, but I really would like to learn the right way to do it in modprobe.d. -T Did you get any errors after editing the IPTABLES_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config to: IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_nat_ftp" On 07/15/2011 10:13 PM, Tom H wrote: >From a colleague working on our RHEL 6 deployment (similar to F14/F15): root # vi /etc/sysconfig/modules/ip_nat_ftp.modules #!/bin/sh exec /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp root # chmod +x /etc/sysconfig/modules/ip_nat_ftp.modules Perhaps you should also start using the new name, nf_nat_ftp (although its alias, ip_nat_ftp, the previous name, still works). Hi Guys, Okay.  I probably need to come clean on this. 1) ip_nat_ftp was not loaded at boot, but nf_nat_ftp was. 2) Tom's method of loading a module at boot time worked perfectly. 3) the error when running /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables on both ip & nf_nat_ftp not loading was my fault.  I forgot the quotes in  /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config: Bad:   IPTABLES_MODULES=ip_conntrack_netbios ns nf_nat_ftp Good: IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_conntrack_netbios ns nf_nat_ftp" When ..init.d/iptables ran its "include" on iptables-config, it saw nf_nat_ftp as a separate command and not a variable assignment. On the bright side, I did learn how to load a module at boot time. Thank you all for the help (and your patience), -T