On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:47, Ben Brown wrote: > I manage five Dell servers, running FC1, with NetXtreme BCM5701 NICs. > They use drivers that have to be downloaded and compiled, which works > great, except that when an updated kernel RPM gets installed (either > manually or via yum), /etc/modules.conf gets re-written and the eth0 & > eth1 modules get changed from bcm5700 to tg3. > > Occasionally, these machines get rebooted, and if the modules.conf file > doesn't get changed to load the compiled modules, we lose network > connectivity to the machines. Does anyone know what causes the file to > get re-written, or how to change this behavior? > > Thanks. > -- > ------------- > Ben Brown > http://www.xthorsworld.com/ I have the same issue with firewall rules. You may want to chattr the modules.conf file. I don't know how this will affect your yum upgrades. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
