Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 13:07:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wayne M Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd hang or DNS Message-ID: <199910052007.NAA00530@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Oct 1999 14:19:17 CDT." <199910051919.OAA00341@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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> Dear Mike, > > Why would passwd care about the DNS setup? Because you may have configured Kerberos or NIS, both of which need to perform hostname resolution. > I tried your suggestion to 'stty status ^T' > Here is the output from a few ^T: > > wayne@klentaq:/home/wayne>passwd > load: 1.00 cmd: passwd 41655 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 644k This is another possible candidate, actually. You can try 'passwd -l' to see if this is what's happening. > Here we go for the hanging 'send-pr': > wayne@klentaq:/home/wayne>send-pr > load: 1.01 cmd: sed 41816 [piperd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 492k > load: 1.01 cmd: sed 41816 [piperd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 492k This is waiting for a coprocess at the other end of the pipe. The coprocess is the one that's probably asleep. > I don't see the [select] that you predicted. Also, I can do most > any network function from my system one, so I think its DNS is okay. That's not a valid assumption, since the above two cases are "network functions" that don't appear to be working. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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