LPI Linux Certification/Manage kernel at runtime

Detailed Objective

Weight: 3

Description:
Candidates should be able to manage and/or query a 2.6.x kernel and its loadable modules.

• Key Knowledge Areas:
  • Use command-line utilities to get information about the currently
  • running kernel and kernel modules.
  • Manually load and unload kernel modules.
  • Determine when modules can be unloaded.
  • Determine what parameters a module accepts.
  • Configure the system to load modules by names other than their file
  • name.

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and
  • utilities:
  • /lib/modules/kernel-version/modules.dep
  • module configuration files in /etc
  • /proc/sys/kernel/
  • depmod
  • insmod
  • lsmod
  • rmmod
  • modinfo
  • modprobe
  • uname