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From: rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Questions about 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Sep22.180926.13496@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 22 Sep 92 23:09:26 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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I have a few questions about 386BSD 0.1:
1. Swap Space. Does 386BSD automatically set up swap space for you when
you install it, or do you need to install the swap space yourself?
Presently I only have 1 partition on my 120M hard disk, and the swapon -a
command is in the /etc/rc file. From what I gather swapping will not
be active, since there is no swap partition - or does 386BSD swap to a
swap file in the root partition? Can it swap to a swap file or only to
a partition?
2. Weird bugs in csh for 0.1? I have set up a new account for myself
on my system with the login id 'kjb' and no password. When I try to
use this account, the shell dies after a while and either halts with
a core dump or sends me back to the logon prompt. I have custom .cshrc
and .login files, but they are _exactly_ the same as my root ones, and
I have no problems at all when running as root. Other accounts such
as lynne and bill seems to work fine?
3. Strange ROOT LOGIN messages? I just noticed while I was writing this
message that if I do nothing for a while when logged in as root, I get
wierd messages popping up on the screen
"Sep 22 18:16:29 jaco login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON console"
Is this normal or is it a bug?
4. /etc/motd file getting changed? I tried to change the /etc/motd file
but it seems to be reset after a while to the default file. Why is this
and how can you change it?
5. I am thinking of getting a tape drive and possibly a large SCSI
hard disk for my system. What sort of drives are the best to get
(rather general question :-).
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