Bill, you have commented on tangent topics on this thread, but not on the explicit suggestion. /dev/null or bugzilla? On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:36:49AM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:16:42PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:26 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > This mechanism looks fine to me, but for one it says "backward > > > compatibility", so there must be some more modern approach, and > > > secondly it is sourcing in one file only, e.g. autoloading would have > > > to be edited instead of dropped in. > > > > Editing rc.sysinit around line 150 or so is the "modern" way, but it is > > still ugly. > > > > > If there is no better mechanism, then please consider shipping an > > > /etc/rc.modules that sources in /etc/rc.modules.d/* or similar, so > > > packages can simply drop in a module loading script. > > > > +1 > > Then how about > > /etc/rc.modules: > > #! /bin/sh > > # Don't modify this file, instead create a module loading script > # under /etc/rc.modules.d > > for x in `ls /etc/rc.modules.d/* 2>/dev/null | \ > LC_ALL=C grep -v '~$'`; do > test -x $x && $x > done > > Should this file and the %dir /etc/rc.modules.d become part of the > initscript package (as well as a commented example using pcspkr)? It > looks harmless enough to make it to FC4 if approved. Bill ist the > master of this package, Bill, is it worth a patch in bugzilla? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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