Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 28 Jan 1999 15:18:24 -0800 |
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"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.
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