Grrr... modprobe.conf

Ralph Loader suckfish at ihug.co.nz
Mon Sep 20 05:43:31 UTC 2010


> After all these years, something from the fedora repos
> (the only ones I have active in my F14 partition) is still
> creating an (empty) /etc/modprobe.conf file.

Looks like it's a minor security hole too:

$ ls -l /etc/modprobe.conf 
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 27 17:50 /etc/modprobe.conf
       ^^

I don't think I changed the permissions myself...

Ralph.


> 
> Maybe abrtd should add a special inotify thread that
> watches /etc/ for a modprobe.conf file being created :-).
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