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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Message-ID: <8efV35C00VBC84wq8a@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed,  9 Sep 1992 10:57:09 -0400 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: who,swap space,localhost
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A few questions.

1) Once someone logs into a secure terminal they never get removed from
utmp until another person logs in (so who always shows someone logged
into console, tty1 (com1) and tty2 (com2).  Is there a way to fix this
behavior?

2) I have 6 megs unpartitoned on my harddrive.  Is there an way to make
this into 6 megs of swap space?  Also, how much swap space is put in
from install? I have heard people say 5, but others have told me 6.

3) How do I get localhost to work?  I have it defined in /etc/hosts, but
I don't think that anything is looking there for ip addresses, and our
nameserver doesn't seem to have it defined.  mail seems to have a lot of
bugs though unless localhost works properly.

htoaster