Grrr... modprobe.conf

[Andre Robatino]

Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I have some anecdotal evidence. I installed F13 (x86_64) on my dad's
> computer this weekend. I did not see the empty modprobe.conf until
> after I did a kernel update. The only packages I updated was the
> kernel and the firmware package at that time.

It could be this bug in system-config-network:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589593

It's been fixed since then in everything except F12 (which has a fixed
updates-testing version) but the original F13 version was broken. This bug
creates /etc/modprobe.conf with permission 644, not 666, so it shouldn't be a
security issue.