LSMOD(8) lsmod LSMOD(8)

# [NAME](#NAME)

lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**lsmod** \[*OPTIONS*]

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

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

# [OPTIONS](#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](#COPYRIGHT)

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

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**insmod**(8)](/man/os/kmod/insmod.8), [**modprobe**(8)](/man/os/kmod/modprobe.8), [**modinfo**(8)](/man/os/kmod/modinfo.8), [**depmod**(8)](/man/os/kmod/depmod.8)

# [BUGS](#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](#AUTHORS)

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

**Lucas De Marchi** <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> is the current maintainer of the project.

2026-10-01 kmod

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Document: lsmod(8) from kmod 34.2-r51 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git