From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 24 9: 8:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE0E37B407 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5OG4vs03599; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:04:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B361044.3470A4FF@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:07:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jcouch@netdoor.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: softupdates? References: <01062410585700.00699@katana.amberskogg.dns2go.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim couch wrote: > > How can I tell if softupdates are realy running? When I recompiled the kernel > with option SOFTUPDATES, being the only change i first did /usr/sbin/config > -g KATANA then changed to the compile dir and then did make depend then make > then make install. but the make didn't take very long at all. should I have > done a make clean first? > But now I am trying to see if there is a command I can give to query > softupdates to see if it is running.the message returned said it was enabled > but my experience with error messages is such that this could mean enabled > but not necessarily running or enabled and running..... Softupdates, once compiled into the kernel, is turned on/off on a per-filesystem basis. To see what filesystems have soft-updates turned on, issue mount with no options mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1f on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) As you can see, I've got soft-updates enabled on /usr and /var, but not / -Bill -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message