Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:58:12PM -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> 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.
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Thx for the answer !
>
> So you're telling me that I should run update-modules whenever I modify
> /etc/modules ?
No, this is unnecessary. You need to run update-modules after modifying
anything in /etc/modutils, but /etc/modules is *not* used to create
/etc/modules.conf.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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