Re: [Sheflug] Assorted newbie problems

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Dr A V Le Blanc wrote:

> (Sorry; Alex wrote only the second paragraph.)  The way in which
> modutils is configured has changed.  Instead of having a hand-edited file,
> you have several files (in /etc/modutils), and there is an update-modules
> command that combines them and creates modules.conf.  Since the whole
> thing might overwrite your old conf.modules file, it was decided to
> replace the old file (manually edited) with the new one (automatically
> created).

Ahh, this explains it. I've never noticed the difference; I've always
edited the file by hand, perhaps I ought to find out about this new
wizzbangness ;) I always thought it was just the distro's being difficult
(putting files in different places, etc.).. btw, not meant as a dig at
Debain for anyone who interpreted it as such!!

Cheers,

Alex.

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