Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?
Florian Friesdorf <42ff@gmx.net> wrote:
> 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)
Apparently it won't on my system. I have just tried it _again_ 'modprobe -k ppp' loads
the modules but 30 minutes later they are still loaded. The crontab is set to unload
every 5 minutes.
Barry Samuels
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