deamon error message

[Sundaram Ramasamy]

Hi,

I have installed  tinc-1.0pre7-1.i386.rpm      in redhat 7.2, followed the documentation. While running daemon, its giving following error message

Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-36
Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Could not open /dev/misc/net/tun: Nos uch device  
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/etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-10-200 tun    


[root at localhost log]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
tun                     4320   0  (unused)
autofs                 12224   0  (autoclean) (unused)
8139too                18784   1
ipt_state                928   2  (autoclean)
ip_nat_h323             4368   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_nat_ftp              4464   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp        4848   1  (autoclean) [ip_nat_ftp]
iptable_nat            25808   2  (autoclean) [ip_nat_h323 ip_nat_ftp]
ip_conntrack_h323       4464   1  (autoclean) [ip_nat_h323]
ip_conntrack           30320   4  (autoclean) [ipt_state ip_nat_h323 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_h323]
iptable_filter          2032   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              14592   5  [ipt_state iptable_nat iptable_filter]


[root at localhost log]# ls -l /dev/misc/net/tun
crw-------    1 root     root      36,  17 Jul  1 14:44 /dev/misc/net/tun


[root at localhost percipia]# pwd
/etc/tinc/percipia
[root at localhost percipia]# cat tinc.conf
# Sample tinc configuration file

# This is a comment.
# Spaces and tabs are eliminated.
# The = sign isn't strictly necessary any longer, though you may want
# to leave it in as it improves readability :)
# Variable names are treated case insensitive.

# The name of this tinc host. Required.
Name = alpha

# The internet host to connect with.
# Comment these out to make yourself a listen-only connection
# You must use the name of another tinc host.
# May be used multiple times for redundance.
ConnectTo = beta

# The tap device tinc will use. Required.
# Default is /dev/tap0 for ethertap or FreeBSD,
# /dev/tun0 for Solaris and OpenBSD,
# and /dev/misc/net/tun for Linux tun/tap device.
Device = /dev/misc/net/tun

# The file in which the private key for this host is stored. Required.
PrivateKeyFile = /etc/tinc/percipia/rsa_key.priv
[root at localhost percipia]#


Jul  1 14:48:51 localhost tinc.percipia[1275]: tincd 1.0pre7 starting
Jul  1 14:48:51 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-36
Jul  1 14:48:51 localhost tinc.percipia[1275]: Could not open /dev/misc/net/tun: No
such device
Jul  1 14:48:51 localhost tinc.percipia[1275]: Unrecoverable error
Jul  1 14:48:51 localhost tinc.percipia[1275]: Restarting in 900 seconds!
Jul  1 14:50:06 localhost kernel: Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.4 (C)1999-2001 M
axim Krasnyansky
Jul  1 14:51:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: tincd 1.0pre7 (Apr 25 2002 18:34:45)
starting, debug level 1
Jul  1 14:51:18 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-36
Jul  1 14:51:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Could not open /dev/misc/net/tun: No
such device
Jul  1 14:51:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Unrecoverable error
Jul  1 14:51:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Restarting in 900 seconds!
Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-36
Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Could not open /dev/misc/net/tun: No
such device
Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Unrecoverable error
Jul  1 15:06:18 localhost tinc.percipia[1292]: Restarting in 900 seconds!
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