On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, M3 Freak wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:52, Colin Paul Adams wrote: > > I'm a bit puzzled about this rc.modules bit. > > There ISN'T one on my system > > There's an /etc/modprobe.conf and an /etc/modules.conf. > > > > I've put it in the former (but I've no intention of re-booting just to > > test it out). > > You could use /etc/rc.local. The reason for /etc/rc.modules is that /etc/rc.local is executed last in the boot sequence (after all run-level startup scripts), so if any services require modules to be loaded beforehand, they are out of luck. OTOH, /etc/rc.modules is executed early in the boot process (before run-level startups). The reason /etc/rc.modules doesn't exist by default is that there is nothing in the default installation that requires it. (But maybe putting an empty one in place would not be a bad idea.) -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
