Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-41,: Re: Name change for /etc/conf.modules

# Re: Name change for /etc/conf.modules

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sat, 09 Oct 1999 17:41:25 -0400

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In message <37FF854F.1C0A2210@Mutz.com>, Marc Mutz writes:
+-----
| I fear I do not get the point. If a program knows only of conf.modules,
| then it will modify that file and leave the symlink modules.conf
| untouched. It will therefore still point to "conf.modules", being the
| new version of the config file. So that is exactly what you want, isn't
| it?
+--->8

Read the link backwards. Sorry.

The same could still happen if some utilities are using one and other
utilities use the other, though; and the result would be real confusion.

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