From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 10:50:12 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 2C78B37B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54D643E65 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from manek@ecst.csuchico.edu) Received: from 209-239-207-88.oak.jps.net ([209.239.207.88] helo=rover) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17TR1q-000596-00; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:49:59 -0700 From: "Sameer R. Manek" To: "Holt Grendal" , Subject: RE: Unloading Kernel Modules Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 10:49:54 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020713023341.71837.qmail@web11605.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 The first one is the kernel, which is itself. the second is the linux image, for running linux binaries, which you probably responded yes to, when you did your initial install. You can permanently disable that, by adding the following line to your /etc/rc.conf linux_enable="NO" Or if it's there and says "YES", change it to "NO" vn is used for a lot of things, type 'man vn' to read about it, though I don't think it's used for anything by default. Sameer > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Holt Grendal > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:34 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Unloading Kernel Modules > > > 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-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message