On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote: >Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> >> again, just for my own curiosity, do other distributions also autoload >> modules on boot using /etc/modules?
Yes. > I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i What does update-modules do with /etc/modules? >just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for >modutils in /etc/init.d. Its one of the first scripts run from sysinit. > It runs depmod and echos "Claculating module dependencies..." >just before modprobe loads modules from /etc/modules. > > > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
