Re: [cobalt-users] Re:[Mips]HELP! Can't turn off IPX & Appletalk Logging

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Run out of ideas why it works on my system, but not on yours. Maybe the
original poster (Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx>) can offer some insight into
why the off on the alias is not working.

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:49:11 -0800, "James Hoaggs" <james_hoaggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>> Look through man modprobe and see if anything rings a bell.
:>Red Hat Linux Unleased by Sams Pub. on Loadable Module Support:
:>"To clear out unused modules, you will need to call rmmod -a yourself
:>or schedule it periodically through the root crontab entry:
:>0 -59/5 * * * * /sbin/rmmod -a"
:>O'reilly's "Running Linux" says list the loaded drivers with the command
:>"lsmod"; though when we do /sbin/lsmod we get only:
:>Module        Pages        Used by
:>They also say a module can be unloaded from memory using the rmmod command,
:>like "rmmod ftape".
:>Do you think we can do ? :
:>rmmod net-pf-4 ipx
:>rmmod net-pf-5 appletalk
:>Without hosing the machine?

Cannot even begin to guess since my system is working OK.

:>>   start)
:>>         echo -n "Starting system loggers: "
:>>         daemon syslogd -m 0
:>> As I remember, it only suppresses the ---MARK --- time stamp.
:>We just added the "-m 0" after the daemon and restarted syslog; still
:>get the messages.
:>> The key has to be in modprobe since that is what is generating the
:>> error messages. 
:>> Permissions OK?
:>Yup, we have the same :
:>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1123 Nov 11 08:17 conf.modules
:>> Did you edit the conf.modules with a word wrap editor and now modprobe
:>> is zapping at reading the alias file?
:>We used the vi editor with no word wrap features on.
:>> If you put conf.modules back to the original state do the modprobe
:>>>>>>messages stop? 
:>Yes, but then we are back to square one with the bloody IPX/appleshare
:>messages.
:>Thx,

Strange ...

Sorry I could not be of more help.