Subject: Re: Can't get interfaces????
From: Harry Zink/Netatalk List (netatalk@fizbin.com)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 12:55:34 EDT
on 7/25/00 2:26 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic at dejanm@aon.at wrote:
> I couldn't agree more about not turning on every possible service.
> And about how bloated redhat and suse became.
IMO, there is nothing wrong about having every conceivable service AVAILABLE
in the form of modules that can be loaded dynamically - that was the whole
point of having modules in the first place.
Small kernel - lots of modules.
> At risk of being too hard on new users-admins: it seems that
> nobody cares to read the documentation. That makes the "Release
> notes" obsolete here.
Not at all, since there are still plenty around that DO read the release
notes, or at least try to find what has changed (the important stuff, stuff
that affects our operation of boxes).
Still, if release notes are not present, or inaccurate, it kinda defeats the
whole RTFM argument anyways...
> Anyway, it shouldn't be too difficult to put together a small
> procedure to check the Appletalk kernel support availability and
> to stick it in a Makefile for "make install", or in a rc script.
Actually, better would be a kernel utility, not dissimilar to ntsysv, that
allows one to see all available modules, and add/delete appropriate modules
being loaded in the conf.modules file.
I see no reason to turn on/off the actual modules, since, again, the point
of modules is that they can be loaded dynamically.
Harry
-- CAN'T SEE MAC IN CHOOSER UNDER RedHat 6.2: If you get errors starting AppleTalk under RedHat 6.2 and Mandrake 7.1, you need to manually add "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" to your /etc/conf.modules file.
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