Once upon a time, Steven Pritchard <steve(a)silug.org> 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.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.