[lug] Redhat doesn't support users that compile their own kernels.

[D. Stimits]

Jeff wrote:
> 
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> >
> > > >From Red Hat's point of view, this is not a major problem; only an
> > > inconvience.  I run Mandrake (8.0) and I also had the exact same issue.
> > > So it's not exclusive to Red Hat.  Since I don't completely understand
> > > iptables, and have not had time to learn as yet, I simply ensure that
> > > the init script only loads ipchains.
> >
> > >From RedHat's point of view they completely missed the point of D.'s bug
> > report, and claim that because he created his own kernel he somehow
> > caused the problem.  In other words, they screwed up.
> >
> > Nate
> 
> While I agree that an error has been made (error checking in
> init-scripts), this is not a show stopper.  I wouldn't think that it
> would be difficult to write a quick fix for this and submit.  Linux is
> open source/community with many patches and bug fixes submitted from
> around the world.  Why not contribute to the community?  Everybody would
> appreciate it; myself found this bug a while ago and blew it off.  I
> just modified the init-scripts to load the appropriate modules.

It IS a show stopper. For a week after I first installed my new RH 7.1,
it claimed to be firewalled. It was not. ipchains script claimed nicely
it wall all up and fine, but it wasn't. It's like having a pilot light
on a fire alarm, and it is nothing more than green glow-in-the-dark
paint. Anyone with valuable data or no backups that has it all destroyed
by a script kiddie will quickly tell you something to the effect of
"gee, the indicator said it was on". It's as serious as a fatal flaw in
the filesystem that can reach out at any moment and do an accident fdisk
of the entire system.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Jeff
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