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author | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2008-11-19 19:01:26 +0100 |
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committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2008-11-19 19:01:26 +0100 |
commit | 7937e94ed36d2bdb909cc0744fbf229564a55592 (patch) | |
tree | 69c02eaca2993cbf28f0e956aaf7c02dba8d8409 /iptables-standalone.c | |
parent | 0ec8c0f00b591681076af2db34df0f230b08fa2c (diff) |
iptables: refer to dmesg when we hit error
This does not make any better, but at least refer to
dmesg which is the common source of information to diagnose
kernel-side problems. This is helpful for newbie users.
# iptables -I INPUT -j CLUSTERIP
iptables: Invalid argument. Run `dmesg' for more information.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'iptables-standalone.c')
-rw-r--r-- | iptables-standalone.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/iptables-standalone.c b/iptables-standalone.c index 001bb04b..dbfae5be 100644 --- a/iptables-standalone.c +++ b/iptables-standalone.c @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) } if (!ret) { - fprintf(stderr, "iptables: %s\n", + fprintf(stderr, "iptables: %s. " + "Run `dmesg' for more information.\n", iptc_strerror(errno)); if (errno == EAGAIN) { exit(RESOURCE_PROBLEM); |