From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 03:14:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC1B1065672 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E198FC20 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 03:14:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m773E5V4030498 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:44:05 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Eugene Kazarinov" Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 12:44:02 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <519867a90808061700i677df5e8u221fe39de2fd3e1@mail.gmail.com> <200808071114.46366.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <519867a90808061950p4a611403we7248af13e69dc5d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <519867a90808061950p4a611403we7248af13e69dc5d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1577555.RNeWJI11Zp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200808071244.03428.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.3/amd64: ng_ipacct "Depends on kernel" ?? why? when? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:14:08 -0000 --nextPart1577555.RNeWJI11Zp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Eugene Kazarinov wrote: > By the way I have one more question to port mantainer (dont know who > is this). run 'make maintainer' in the port directory. > So, as I understand all needed modules loading by kernel "by > default"?! And as I understand, module ng_ipacct.ko is not needed to > the system for IP accounting?! because its not loaded in working > system (and it's not working (isnt it?)) because it is "Unsupported > file type"?! > So, from that port (ng_ipacct) on up-to-date FreeBSD-systems people > need only executable (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ng_ipacct) and conf > (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ng_ipacct.conf.sample renamed to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ng_ipacct.conf) files? Nor kernel module?! The messages about already loaded modules are harmless, the port=20 presumably errs on the side of caution if you have a minimal kernel. > So, If I dont want to get error response "kernel: kldload: > /boot/modules/ng_ipacct.ko: Unsupported file type" in > /var/log/messages then I could remove /boot/modules/ng_ipacct.ko and > /boot/modules/linker.hints > last one containes: I think the 'Unsupported file type' *warning* is due to an odd issue=20 with amd64 kernel module support, it is harmless (although annoying). > I'm afraid to delete these files, because I think system can becomes > unbootable. Isn't it? if you deleted the kernel module for ipacct then you wouldn't be able to=20 use it.. (maybe I don't understand what you mean) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1577555.RNeWJI11Zp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBImmh75ZPcIHs/zowRApNBAJwLGOSqlb/8Uf9n7Me829tZb7wr5gCdGnIo bvV4Ia6Nc0JfYzvkIc29Ors= =OOpP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1577555.RNeWJI11Zp--