Re: remove loading of modules from boot.

Bah, forgot to post this to the list before I submitted ... sorry!

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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 20:31:05 +0100
From: Kerin Millar <[email protected]>
To: Alex Fleak <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] remove loading of modules from boot.


On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:42:35 -0500
Alex Fleak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi my gentoo 1.2 box is still trying to load lm_sensors modules at
> bootup. I removed the lm_sensors package and the modules are not there
> to load. I have looked in /etc/mudules.autoload and they are not
> loading from there. what file is trying to load them and how can i
> stop it from loading? 

Try:

  rc-update del lm_sensors

Explanation: The lm_sensors has an associated service control script(s)
to deal with bringing it up and down. These scripts will be tied in with
so-called runlevels. Gentoo has a much cleaner runlevel system than
conventional Linux and other AT&T derived Unixen. The ones you need to
worry about are boot and default. If you have a look in
/etc/runlevels/boot, for example, you'll see symlinks to scripts
contained in /etc/init.d. These scripts start and stop the services
correctly (in other words, there's more to these services than just
loading a module). The above command just removes any reference to
lm_sensors script from any of your runlevels that may contain it.
Removing the symlink would be enough, but better to use rc-update :-)

--kerframil