Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?
Quoting bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk (bsamuels@datamansys.co.uk):
> 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?
Because if you load a module with modprobe/insmod or through /etc/modules
the system assumes you did so for a reason, respects it and does not
fight you.
There is a switch available to set the autoclean flag if you want it.
Cheers,
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