Modules in RH7.x

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Hey Llama-  Here's one up your alley.
>
> In COL, they have /etc/modules/default as a file to list modules to be
> loaded at startup.  Is there such a thing in RH 7.[2-3]?  This has been
> buggerin' me for a while.  Today, someone asked me how to load the
> ipchains module be default.  I know that it can be loaded from a firewall
> script or from rc.local, but it made me wonder yet again just how RedHat
> DOES module management in the 7.x series...  I've heard that it's all
> probed at startup each time (which sounds scarily like plug-n-pray to me),
> but I don't know the details.  Then I remembered that you maintain a lot
> of RH boxen so I thought you might know.  Thanks.

Redhat (has always) placed this stuff in /etc/modules.conf (although
before 7.x it was /etc/conf.modules which was admittedly, st00pid), which
is where
modutils expects it to be.  Caldera seems to have done things their own
way, which i've never understood.  On the 1 remaining Caldera box that i
run, this is one of the first things that i 'fix'.  IMHO, modules should
always be specified in modules.conf, not in some silly
/etc/modules/default.

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