From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 17 14:36: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD1237B419 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905C18F60 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:35:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g0HMZvP16527 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:35:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201172235.g0HMZvP16527@panix2.panix.com> Subject: Unloading kernel modules before shuting down? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:35:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I notice that the drm rc script unloads the modules it loads when invoked with :stop". so that the modules will get unloaded on the way to shutdown. Question is this required? Is it eve a good idea? After all we are going to halt the system shortly, right? I ask this because I had a panic on the way down, this morning, that I believe was caused by unloading the wrong module (agp in that case)? Thanks for any words of wisdom on this. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message