FYI Daniel
-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Michael Rash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Daniel Gubser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#351191: /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/ChainMgr.pm: no cause > given on failure > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:01:52 -0400 > I'll take a look at this as well for the next release. I'll probably > release 1.4.7 to fix this and the previous bug as well. > > Thanks, > > -- > Michael Rash > http://www.cipherdyne.org/ > Key fingerprint = 53EA 13EA 472E 3771 894F AC69 95D8 5D6B A742 839F > > > > On Jun 27, 2006, Daniel Gubser wrote: > > > Hello Mike > > > > And an other bug which got forgotten, sorry. > > > > Daniel > > > > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:15 +0700, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote: > > > Package: psad > > > Version: 1.4.5-1 > > > Severity: normal > > > File: /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/ChainMgr.pm > > > > > > > > > Another bug in psad (which I'll report separately) caused the iptables > > > invocation(s) in add_ip_rule() to fail. The only error message reported > > > by ChainMgr was "Table: filter, chain: PSAD_BLOCK_INPUT, could not add > > > DROP rule for [...] -> [...]" > > > > > > After hacking ChainMgr to display the command it had tried to run, I was > > > able to reproduce the failed command line and it turns out that iptables > > > was giving a perfectly useful error message. Is it not possible to > > > include > > > this in the error message returned by add_ip_table()? > > > > > > -- System Information: > > > Debian Release: 3.1 > > > APT prefers unstable > > > APT policy: (50, 'unstable') > > > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 > > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > > > > > Versions of packages psad depends on: > > > ii ipchains 1.3.10-15 Network firewalling for > > > Linux 2.2. > > > ii iptables 1.3.1-2 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables > > > adminis > > > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared > > > libraries an > > > ii libcarp-clan-perl 5.3-3 Perl enhancement to Carp > > > error log > > > ii libdate-calc-perl 5.4-3 Perl library for accessing > > > dates > > > ii libnetwork-ipv4addr-perl 0.10-1.1 The Net::IPv4Addr perl > > > module API > > > ii libunix-syslog-perl 0.100-4 Perl interface to the UNIX > > > syslog( > > > ii perl 5.8.4-8sarge3 Larry Wall's Practical > > > Extraction > > > ii psmisc 21.6-1 Utilities that use the proc > > > filesy > > > ii sysklogd [syslogd] 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon > > > ii whois 4.7.5 the GNU whois client > > > > > > -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]