Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:14:01 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about su and network Message-ID: <20050715191401.GI36726@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <200507151906.j6FJ6JqP034933@mx1.csl.sri.com> References: <200507151906.j6FJ6JqP034933@mx1.csl.sri.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] * Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> wrote: > When my ISDN line was down yesterday, I noticed that su from an xterm > would hang on my FreeBSD box. Logging in as root from a virtual console > would work OK. After the network came back everything went back to > normal. > > Is there a way I can avoid this behavior? I mean the hanging, not the > return to normal operation. :-) This would probably have happened because your DNS server was unreachable (su tries to resolve your hostname for the logfiles). This can be solved by adding your own host to /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.3 myhostname myhostname.mydomain.foo Yours, -- Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC2Ar5mVI4SHXwmhERArEqAKDUFpUV1BLGW2yAHurojlL24D/QpwCfTnY+ qBbrwR2DeVvCONWNZSqShFA= =B+Rd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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