Re: why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Peter Jay Salzman <p@belial.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>1. whenever i boot, i get warnings that modules rtl8139, ppp and sg can't be
>   found by modprobe.  for example:
>
>     Calculating module dependencies
>     done
>     Loading modules: ppp modprobe:
>                Can't locate module ppp

[...]

>question: granted this is not a life-threatening error, but why doesn't
>modprobe log these errors?  surely ANY warning concerning the loading of
>kernel modules would be of general interest?!?

Run modprobe with the -s (or --syslog) option. Note that this won't
print anything on the screen, though, which is probably why the boot
scripts don't use it.

A more general solution is eventually to cause all output from the
initialization scripts to be logged. There's been some discussion about
this on debian-devel.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]