[Preston] Bad Debian day

Andrew King andrew at andrewsworld.org
Fri Feb 27 08:22:17 GMT 2004


Andrew King wrote:

> Sorry - I asked completely the wrong question there.  What I'd meant 
> to ask (had I not been asleep at the time :) was if anyone knows of a 
> way to get it to load those modules automatically at boot.  Thankfully 
> they are there, but every time I boot my system I have to su - to 
> root, modprobe the needed modules, and then re-run the 
> firewall+networking script.  Am running Debian 3.0r0 with a dodgy mix 
> of stable+testing+unstable+random other binary debs and installs from 
> source, which has somehow held together for 15 months without a 
> reinstall...


I've just realised how stupid a question that was.  I've been manually 
typing in those commands for several weeks, and yet all I need to do is 
stick them in a shell script that runs on boot... like the one I wrote 
myself to set up networking and firewall!

Andrew




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