From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 19:38:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B94237B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1835743E5E for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6D2cQ2Q082560; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6D2cQm2082559; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:38:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:38:26 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Holt Grendal Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unloading Kernel Modules Message-ID: <20020713023826.GA65887@vectors.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Adam Weinberger , Holt Grendal , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 linux.ko gives you linux compatability. do you have linux_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf? if so, this module gets automatically loaded. vn.ko was load automatically by issuing vnconfig. it handles the vnode disk driver, according to vn(4). unload them if you want, but you should investigate why they were started in the first place. kldunload linux.ko is safe unless you have any running linux processes. be more careful with the vn.ko driver. if it's being used, the kernel likely won't let you unload it anyhow. -Adam >> (07.12.2002 @ 1933 PST): Holt Grendal said, in 0.5K: << > Hi, > > My kernal has these modules loaded: > > > kldstat > Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 3 0xc0100000 1bb548 kernel > 2 1 0xc5b8d000 14000 linux.ko > 7 1 0xc7bee000 3000 vn.ko > > I am unsure how they got there.. > > Is it safe to Unload them or will this Crash the system? > > tia > > holt > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes > http://autos.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "Unloading Kernel Modules" from Holt Grendal << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message