+++ pavan sharma [07/03/02 21:48 -0800]:
> Hi
> 
> I am getting this messg. when i open host file
> ATTENTION
> Found a swap file by the name "/etc/.hosts.swp"
>              dated: Fri Apr 20 14:41:42 2001
>           owned by: root
>          file name: /etc/hosts
>          host name: linux
>          user name: root
>         process ID: 484
> While opening file "/etc/hosts"
>              dated: Thu Mar  7 11:37:58 2002
> 
> CAN I DELETE .hosts.swp file & How ...?
You had an open vi(m) session when you tried to openb this file.
If there is no vi(m) session holding this file open, rm -f /etc/.hosts.swp
will fix the warning.

Devdas Bhagat
-- 
"I don't understand," said the scientist, "why you lemmings all rush down
to the sea and drown yourselves."

"How curious," said the lemming. "The one thing I don't understand is why
you human beings don't."
                -- James Thurber
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