Remi, Dylan, Chris, Fernando, and Alwyn (and all the patient members of the list),
Thanks! You've been very helpful. Time for me to do some sleuthing. Great weekends, all! Marc ----- On 27/9/02 12:55 PM, "Remi Mommsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 07:18 AM, Chris Devers wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Marc Trudeau wrote: >> >>> Thanks, Alwyn. How do I know which files are "Kernel programs"? >> >> Possibly none of them. I think what you're looking for is kernel >> extensions -- .kext packages. Apple ones should be in /System, anything >> you install manually should [I think] end up under /Library. So: >> >> % find /Library | grep '\.kext' | more >> >> On my system -- which aside from Fink doesn't really have any third >> party >> software installed -- the search above turns up nothing. On the other >> hand, searching the /System tree turns up lots, but be careful about >> doing >> anything under that tree, or you could seriously mess up your computer: >> >> % find /System/Library | grep '\.kext' | more >> >> At a glance, it looks like /System/Library/Extensions is the tree under >> which all kernel extensions end up -- and now that I look, most but not >> all of the bundles there end in the .kext extension. Poke around. >> > > You can also see which kernel modules are currently loaded by the > command > kextstat (see man page for details of the output). There are also > kextload and kextunload for loading and unloading kernel modules. > However, use the latter commands with care and be sure you know what > you are doing. They can easily crash your machine. > > Cheers, > Remi > > > ********************************************************************* > Remigius K. Mommsen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of California, Irvine URL: home.cern.ch/mommsen > c/o SLAC voice: ++1 (650) 926-3595 > 2575 Sand Hill Road #35 mobile: ++1 (650) 387-1402 > Menlo Park, CA 94025, US fax: ++1 (650) 926-8522 > ********************************************************************* > -- Marc C. Trudeau Principal M & T Solutions 2001 Donna Ave. Endicott, NY 13760 Phone: 607-754-1500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "...I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
