From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 6:29:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from qmail.corpex.net (qmail.corpex.net [195.153.247.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26A8237B42C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 52612 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2000 13:32:28 -0000 Received: from perseus.corpex.net (HELO perseus) (195.153.247.226) by qmail.corpex.net with SMTP; 24 Aug 2000 13:32:28 -0000 From: "Jonathan Defries" To: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" Subject: RE: Slow passwd command Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:29:19 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000824160134.B9017@linux.rainbow> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:39:00PM +0100, Jonathan Defries wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a problem that has been with me for several months now. > > > > When I type "passwd " is takes nearly a minute to be > > presented with the password prompt. The same happens running > > passwd as a normal user. > Do you have NIS client enabled? nis_client_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf > If you have NIS client enable and don't have NIS server somewhere then > passwd etc. will work slow, very slow. > Also check /etc/host.conf for NIS. > > -- > Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga" Hi, I can't see NIS being enabled anywhere, no. It's not in rc.conf or hosts.conf. - Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message