Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Sebastia Altemir (<altemir@es.ibm.com>) wrote:

> I have solved my Ethernet startup problem by placing the line
> "fealnx" in the "/etc/modules" file. But I would like to know what 
> Script ( as /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S05network -> /etc/init.d/network under 
> SuSE 8.2 ) uses this file to activate my Ethernet card at system 
> startup. I would like to place something like "echo 'its me'" in that 
> file, and to find it somewhere in any /var/log file, as I use to do in 
> SuSE to understand its structure ...

Modules from /etc/modules are loaded by /etc/init.d/modutils. During
boot, it is executed through the symlink /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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