July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 3: Linux Commands
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-q, --quiet
Don’t display error messages about missing symbols.
-r, --root
Allow root to load modules not owned by root.
-s, --syslog
Write error messages to the syslog daemon instead of to stan-
dard error.
-v Print a list of all processed modules.
-A, --quick
Check timestamps and update the dependency file if anything
has changed.
-C file, --config file
Use the specified configuration file instead of /etc/modules.
conf. May also be set using the MODULECONF environment
variable.
-F file, --kernelsyms file
Use the specified kernel symbol file to build dependencies.
Usually this is either a copy of a system’s System.map file or
the output of /proc/ksyms.
-V, --version
Print version number.
Files
/etc/modules.conf
Information about modules: which ones depend on others,
and which directories correspond to particular types of
modules.
/sbin/insmod, /sbin/rmmod
Programs that depmod relies on.
devdump
devdump isoimage
Interactively display the contents of the device or filesystem image
isoimage. devdump displays the first 256 bytes of the first 2048-
byte sector and waits for commands. The prompt shows the extent
number (zone) and offset within the extent, and the contents
display at the top of the screen.
Commands
+ Search forward for the next instance of the search string.
a Search ...
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