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?
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