Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

[Christophe Broult <cbroult@yahoo.com>]

bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk writes:

> I am running Potato with kernel 2.2.17pre6.
> 
> If I dial out to my ISP kmod loads the appropriate modules but
> they are not unloaded, after pppd is terminated, even though
> there is a Root crontab to do this.
> 
> If I type, as Root,  'modprobe -r', which I understand will
> unload any unused modules, no modules are unloaded.  This is, of
> course, after pppd is terminated.
> 
> I can load the ppp modules manually and, if pppd is not running,
> I would assume that these modules are 'unused' and would be
> unloaded with 'modprobe -r' but they are not.
> 
> I can unload then if I specify the module name(s) on the modprobe
> command line.

`/sbin/rmmod -a' does the trick and is what you should have in root's
crontab. Here is what I have in root's crontab on my system:

0-59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a

which I understand it correctly (man crontab(5)) remove unused module
every five minutes.

Chris

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