Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

["J.F.Gratton" <grajea02@hotmail.com>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

> /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the user/sysadmin
> wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you then run
> 'update-modules' as root, which reads this, as well as some files in
> /etc/modutils/, to *create* /etc/modules.conf. (This script is run as
> part of /etc/init.d/modutils at boot time, in case you're wondering why
> you haven't run it yourself and things still worked.)
> 
> There's a lot more to it, and this answer is definitely a bit
> simplistic, but it's the basic idea -- and it's why you don't need to
> (and *SHOULDN'T*) mess with /etc/modules.conf in Debian.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> matthew@weierophinney.net
> 


Hi Matthew,

Thx for the answer !

So you're telling me that I should run update-modules whenever I modify
/etc/modules ? Since I've never done that after a modif. , I guess I was
simply lucky to keep my system up and (at least looking to be) properly
running ?

Jeff