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Jim couch schrieb:
> 
> How can I tell if softupdates are realy running?

# mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs,local soft-updates)
/dev/ad021f on /usr (ufs,local soft-updates)

> 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?

Not neccessarily, although it would prevent some tricky issues.

>  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.....

You maybe missed booting single-user, then tunefs -n enable /dev/<your
partition here>.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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