Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I thought I had better reply to my own message as I've discovered > > that the crontab does unload the unused ppp modules if they were > > loaded by kmod. > > > > If I load the modules manually the crontab apparently does not > > unload them. Can someone tell me why? > > If you load modules with 'modprobe module_name' they will not be automatically > removed. > 'modprobe -k modules_name' will enable this feature. (--> man modprobe)
Apparently it won't on my system. I have just tried it _again_ 'modprobe -k ppp' loads the modules but 30 minutes later they are still loaded. The crontab is set to unload every 5 minutes. Barry Samuels
