Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:25:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Dag Wieers <> | Subject | Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0 |
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On 28 Jan 1999, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net> writes: > > I just downloaded the Linux gazette, all of the targz files at > > the lg ftp site, and proceeded to untar them. It is taking > > forever for EACH file to untar. When I say each file, I don't > > mean each tarball, but rather each file IN the tarball. > I bet you're using NIS or NIS+, or maybe LDAP. In all the cases the > problem is that tar is looking for information about an unknown > account (namely Linus'). > > Either put the correct account in /etc/passwd and /etc/group or use > glibc 2.1 (currentlz 2.0.111) with nscd. no ! the right thing to do is to remove 'nis', 'nisplus' and 'nis+' from your /etc/nsswitch.conf if you don't have a nis-server around. this was discussed before !
dag wieers, <dag@digibel.be>, http://dag.ml.org/ _| _ _ ° we know linux is the best, it can do infinite ° (_|(_|(_| ° loops in five seconds. -- Linus Torvalds |
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