On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:48:13AM -0500, Patterson, Ross wrote: > The Marist and SuSE distributions both run "/sbin/depmod -a" during > startup (Marist out of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, SuSE out of /etc/rc.d/boot). > I don't have a Red Hat s390 system close to hand, but I expect it > does as well - Red Hat i386 certainly does (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit).
Yes, Redhat on s390 does run depmod in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. One thing to note is that Redhat's rc.sysinit runs depmod with the -A option, not -a. The capital A option checks if any of /etc/modules.conf and the modules under /lib/modules for the current kernel are newer than the modules.dep file. If so, it then behaves like the lowercase a option and generates a new modules.dep. This should be faster than blindly doing a 'depmod -a' at each boot. Dave -- Dave O'Neill, Senior Linux Consultant Linuxcare, Inc. tel: (613) 562-9949 fax: (613) 562-9700 dmo at linuxcare.com http://www.linuxcare.com/
