On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Hey Llama- Here's one up your alley. > > In COL, they have /etc/modules/default as a file to list modules to be > loaded at startup. Is there such a thing in RH 7.[2-3]? This has been > buggerin' me for a while. Today, someone asked me how to load the > ipchains module be default. I know that it can be loaded from a firewall > script or from rc.local, but it made me wonder yet again just how RedHat > DOES module management in the 7.x series... I've heard that it's all > probed at startup each time (which sounds scarily like plug-n-pray to me), > but I don't know the details. Then I remembered that you maintain a lot > of RH boxen so I thought you might know. Thanks.
Redhat (has always) placed this stuff in /etc/modules.conf (although before 7.x it was /etc/conf.modules which was admittedly, st00pid), which is where modutils expects it to be. Caldera seems to have done things their own way, which i've never understood. On the 1 remaining Caldera box that i run, this is one of the first things that i 'fix'. IMHO, modules should always be specified in modules.conf, not in some silly /etc/modules/default. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
