On 2002.06.06 Alan Cox wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 23:23, Oliver Wegner wrote:
>> all i wanted to point out was that it doesnt seem to be distribution
>> independent as someone had stated before because that file /etc/modules
>> for example doesnt exist under SuSE. i wasnt asking anything about it
>> myself.
>>
>> anyway i will be able to find out that information if i need to sometime.
>> thanks.
>
>modules.conf is the standard name for it. A long time ago it was
>sometimes called conf.modules.
>
Usually there is an rc script called /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. It
can load modules directly (perhaps this is the case on SuSE and RH),
or it reads the list of modules to load from an independent file
(/etc/modules in Mandrake, for example). In the first case you add
the 'modprobe xxxx' directly in the rc script, and in the second you
just add 'xxxx' in /etc/modules, so you do not modify a system file
and rpm is happy about .rpmnew files.
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