Re: how to tell if the kernel's been tainted?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 30/06/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   not sure if i've asked this before, but is there a simple command
> > that will tell me if the kernel has been tainted by the loading of a
> > non-GPL (or equivalent) module?  thanks.
> >
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted

ah, i knew it had to be simple.  and i'm assuming that, once the
kernel is tainted, there is nothing short of a reboot that will
untaint it, correct?

rday
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