Colin Carter writes:
Sorry to be a pain, but can somebody explain the output of lsmod. I am trying to get better management of my SuSE 9.1 ( and bother others a little less :-)
A doc reference would do fine, if it explains what each line does. I understand lsmod (I think) . What I need is an explanation of each line so I know what is going on in my system. For example I don't know (I know - ignorant) when CUPS is running. ...
lsmod shows the _kernel modules_ that are currently loaded, and which other loaded kernel modules are dependent on it. lsmod is not the correct command to check whether "CUPS is running", because CUPS is a user-space service, not provided by a kernel module. If the host on which you're logged in is the CUPS server, then a "ps aux | grep cupsd" should show the /usr/sbin/cupsd daemon process running. If you're logged in to a client machine that accesses a remote CUPS server, then there may not be a local CUPS daemon (depending on the specific CUPS configuration). In any case a "lpstat -t" command should show whether the printer(s), whether local or remote, are ready to print and whether they have jobs on their queues. The "info" or "man" command is your friend, when it comes to looking for help on specific commands. E.g., "man lsmod", "man lpstat", "man cupsd", etc. -Ti -- Ti Kan http://www.amb.org/ti Vorsprung durch Technik