MAC module problem

Christopher Nehren apeiron+usenet at coitusmentis.info
Thu Mar 24 11:50:21 PST 2005


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On 2005-03-24, Andreas Davour scribbled these
curious markings:
> I'v tried to load a few MAC modules and try that security system. This 
> oddity appeared in dmesg:
>
> "mac_policy_modevent: can't load mac_lomac policy after booting
> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (mac_lomac, 0xc056f4dc, 0xc1c285c0) error 
> 16"

It means exactly what it says. You can't load mac_lomac after having
booted the system. You can see from mac_lomac(4) that you can put it in
your kernel configuration, and that you load it from loader.conf. If you
don't want to rebuild your kernel, you can use the module, if you have
it.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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