Paul Howarth wrote:
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.
Thanks all, the /etc/rc.modules trick works for the fc3 box. Now onto
today's interesting find...
-Mike
