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Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:28:47PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 08:59:14AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > They are supposed to be modified at boot time to ensure that they are
> > generated correctly, and the filesystem must be read/write at that time
> > as well.
> 
> It is perfectly sane to install them correct, in the first place. You can
> just skip the update process if it fails (i think this is already the
> case).

It would be sane to do that, of course.  But is it possible to always
generate them correctly, even if the running kernel doesn't match the
modules?

If it fails, module loading is likely to fail.

-- 
 - mdz



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