a question about evim

[Michael ODonnell]

>> those backup files would be silently evaluated AFTER the "real"
>> files and basically inflict the previous config on them.
>
>Wow!  That's some really poor script writing!  I can only imagine a
>loop like this:
>
>  for i in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg.*


I can't remember the details in the ifcfg case but in the
modprobe case it involved mention of a directory with the
"include" directive in modprobe.conf - all files in the
specified directory are apparently processed...      :-/