Once upon a time, Steven Pritchard <steve@xxxxxxxxx> said: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:23:05PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > In rc.sysinit, there is: > > > > # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs) > > if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then > > /etc/rc.modules > > fi > > I seem to recall that comment has been there since around Red Hat > 3.0.3, but I could be imagining things. (And I can't verify this, > because the old versions seem to have disappeared from the FTP site.) I just happen to have a set of 3.0.3 CDs sitting here (I think I have every release back to 3.0.3, with quite a few test releases in between), so I checked. You are right, the comment hasn't changed. However, there is a difference: the 3.0.3 version uses /etc/rc.d/rc.modules instead of just /etc/rc.modules. Not much backward compatibility there, is it! :-) Boy, looking into an old RPM is not easy. RPM 4.2 won't read an RPM v2 package, and my shell script version of rpm2cpio choked on it as well. I still have a (non-Linux) system running RPM 4.0, and it could still read it. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
