[CentOS] Re: Swap Considerations

[Scott Silva]

Tim Wunder spake the following on 2/27/2007 2:00 PM:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 4:46:59 pm Jim Perrin wrote:
>> However, since today seems to be 'old reference' day between here and
>> work, I'll throw down a  gauntlet.
>>
>> Geek challenge of the day: What does the acronym GECOS stand for and
>> how is it used in linux today?
>>
>> No cheating with man pages or wikipedia!
> 
> General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
> It is my understanding that it is currently used in linux to refer to the 
> proper name field in the /etc/passwd file.
> 
> Is that close?
> 
> I cheated, however, I didn't use wikipedia or the man page. So I /am/ 
> following the rules set forth ;)
> 
> Tim
He didn't say you couldn't use Google ;-P
Plenty of links that aren't man page or wikipedia.

It's even in RedHat docs.

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