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 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 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 use it.. (maybe I don't understand what you mean) -- 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
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