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lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  COPYRIGHT  SEE ALSO  BUGS  AUTHORS 

NAME

lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

SYNOPSIS

lsmod [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

lsmod is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the /proc/modules, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

OPTIONS

-s, --syslog

Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.

-v, --verbose

Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually lsmod prints messages only if something goes wrong.

-V, --version

Show version of program and exit.

-h, --help

Print the help message and exit.

COPYRIGHT

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

SEE ALSO

insmod(8), modprobe(8), modinfo(8), depmod(8)

BUGS

Please direct any bug reports to kmod’s issue tracker at https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with version used, steps to reproduce the problem and the expected outcome.

AUTHORS

Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list <[email protected]> and Github. If you have a clone of kmod.git itself, the output of git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1) can show you the authors for specific parts of the project.

Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]> is the current maintainer of the project.


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