On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 19:55 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote: > Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 12:16 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit : > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > > > > >>In FC4 you can create a script with a name ending in ".modules" > > >>in /etc/sysconfig/modules and that will get run at around the same time > > >>that rc.modules would be run. This is the "approved" may of doing this > > >>now. > > > > > > > > > Is this preferable to writing a modprobe command in rc.local ? > > > Is rc.local frowned on now? > > > > Depends when you want the module loaded. rc.local is executed right at > > the end of the boot process, but rc.modules or > > /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier. If you need your > > module loading for some services to start, rc.local will be too late. > > > > Paul. > > > Ok what is the syntax of these *.modules files (ie if i want to load a > module named spca5xx i have just to add it in this file) ? It's a shell script, so you want something like: modprobe spca5xx > You say that /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier but when ? Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - it's at around line 218. It's just after the: Initializing hardware... storage network audio done. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
