Ed Lazor wrote:

> >It is being run as a cron job to remove unused modules.  Take a look at
> >/etc/cron.d/kmod to see how it is being run.  If you don't want it to run,
> >then you will have to manualy take care of removing unneeded modules.
>
> But...  - dumb question here - ...  aren't the necessary ones loaded at
> boot time and that's all there is to it?
>

yes, they're also loaded as their needed.  for example, i have floppy support
compiled as a module.  when i mount the floppy drive, the module loads.  rmmod
ensures that it's unloaded later, when i'm not using it.

it doesn't hurt to leave it as a cronjob.
--
steve




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