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has caused the Debian Bug report #351191,
regarding /usr/lib/perl5/IPTables/ChainMgr.pm: no cause given on failure
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Michael Rash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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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
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