Proper way to autoload modules (/etc/rc.modules)?

Ronny Buchmann ronny-vlug at vlugnet.org
Sun Apr 3 12:24:58 UTC 2005


On Sunday 03 April 2005 13:26, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the recommended way to automatically load some modules upon
> bootup?
>
> Ideally it should be part of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. One can find the
> following entry there:
>
> # Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
> if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
>         /etc/rc.modules
> fi

> Whoever wrote that comments knows how to do it better, so step up and
> talk! ;)
This is already present in rc.sysinit rev 1.1.1.1 (cvs import by Erik Troan 
dated 1997)

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