Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:26:14 +0530 (IST) | From | ganesh@cse ... | Subject | RE: very slow tar with deep trees on 2.1.131 |
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> From: christophe.leroy5@capway.com > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:59:13 +0100 > > I dont have scsi. I have IDE (not UDMA) disks. > Nothing in /var/log/messages nor in dmesg. > > christophe
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread but let me hazard a guess: NIS. if your tar file contains files owned by uids not present in /etc/passwd and ypbind is running and your network/ypserver is down then you get extremely slow untars as each attempt to contact the ypserver times out. in such a situation, with the default nsswitch.conf on redhat you're pretty much screwed - no one else can login, even root. kill ypbind or remove nis nisplus for passwd and group in /etc/nsswitch.conf <rant> is there any way to get sane behaviour in an nis setup, like maybe letting root login because his damn passwd is in /etc/passwd and not cry over a dead ypserver ? there probably is, this is too stupid otherwise. someone please enlighten me? </rant>
-- ganesh
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