Can I recover a modprobe.conf from the running list of modules?

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:37:11AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> > I'm a dope...I deleted my modprobe.conf file...and all backup copies, too
> > 
> > I'm trying to find a way to regenerate my modprobe.conf, from the 
> > currently running modules.  Is thre a way to do so?
> 
> Can you just copy modules.conf to modprobe.conf?

I didn't think so, but it might be possible...modules.conf isn't as new/up 
to date as modprobe.conf was...and, the syntaxes have changed (like 
modules being named .ko, etc).

> My RHEL3 system doesn't even have modprobe.conf but on my FC3 system,
> the 2 are identical.
> 
> > I really need to learn not to use my computer in the morning.
> 
> And you need to learn how to take backups.  rsnapshot.sourceforge.net is
> a good, fast tool that's easy on the resources, especially for backing
> up things like /etc.

Yeah...when my tape drives stopped working, I hadn't gotten around to 
getting a decent DVD backup system working (I have a DVD+-RW drive).
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