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Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?



On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:28PM +0100, bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk wrote:
> I thought I had better reply to my own message as I've discovered
> that the crontab does unload the unused ppp modules if they were
> loaded by kmod.
> 
> If I load the modules manually the crontab apparently does not
> unload them.  Can someone tell me why?

If you load modules with 'modprobe module_name' they will not be automatically removed.
'modprobe -k modules_name' will enable this feature. (--> man modprobe)

-ff


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