Date: 18 Jun 1998 05:06:49 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! "who" hangs system. Message-ID: <873ed3koqu.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Doug Lo's message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:15:59 %2B0800" References: <3588AC56.45FF6317@ms11.hinet.net> <87hg1jkvz6.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> <3588CCBE.9E51D44@ms11.hinet.net>
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Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> writes: > sfarrell+lists@farrell.org wrote: > > > Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> writes: > > > > > When I run 'who', I notice the system takes an extremely long time > > > to repond. After rebooting, the problem did go away for a > > > while. But not for long. So I made some other changed and rebooted > > > it again. Still, 'who' works OK after rebooting only for a short > > > period of time. Would anyone know how to solve this problem? > > > thanks. > > > > Are you running NIS? > > Yup! Any solution? Well, it's probably taking a long time b/c the NIS setup is slow to resolve user names--for any of 10,000 reasons. Are you responsible for the NIS server? Are is NIS slow from other boxes on your network? ... need some background here... -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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