It has been suggested that a workround is to set /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to /any/bogus/file Could a kind expert summarise in layman's terms what functionality you lose by doing this on a running system that has been up for a while (so most of the needed modules are already loaded)? Thanks, Bob On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Mathias Homann wrote:
See http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-20.03.03-000/ or http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/315635
Has this been discussed here already?
bye, [MH]
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