cat /etc/modprobed_db.conf
# Make sure that the user you plan to run the script as has r/w to the path!
dbpath="/var/log" # no trailing /
# Add modules in the ignore array that you do NOT want counted, for example
# modules that get build by their respective package.
ignore=(nvidia vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp lirc_dev lirc_i2c)

ls -l /var/log
total 36420
drwxrwxrwt  4 root    root       400 Apr 18 14:00 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 root    root       440 Apr 14 14:10 ../
-rw-r-----  1 root    log        409 Apr 18 13:59 acpid.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log       4540 Apr 18 20:32 auth.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root        60 Apr 18 13:59 ConsoleKit/
-rw-r-----  1 root    log      66170 Apr 18 20:33 crond.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log   18236516 Apr 18 20:33 daemon.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root     56760 Apr 18 13:59 dmesg.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log       1022 Apr 18 14:16 errors.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log   18468681 Apr 18 20:33 everything.log
-rw-------  1 root    root     32032 Apr 18 13:59 faillog
-rw-r-----  1 root    log     107701 Apr 18 20:21 kernel.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root    292292 Apr 18 13:59 lastlog
-rw-r-----  1 root    log      57509 Apr 18 20:33 mail.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log      90884 Apr 18 20:32 messages.log
-rw-r--r--  1 mememe  users    15207 Apr 18 20:29 mpdscribble.log
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root      1039 Apr 18 20:32 pacman.log
-rw-r-----  1 root    log         82 Apr 18 13:59 syslog.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    root        60 Apr 18 13:59 wicd/
-rw-r--r--  1 root    users    26442 Apr 18 13:59 Xorg.0.log

sudo modprobed_db
No db present so making /var/log/modprobed.db
The db currently contains this many records: 106

Which has ls -l /var/log create these two more lines:
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root       979 Apr 18 20:34 modprobed.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root    root       979 Apr 18 20:34 modprobed.long