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To: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
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Subject: Re: HELP! "who" hangs system.
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From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
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Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> writes:

> sfarrell+lists@farrell.org wrote:
> 
> > Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> writes:
> >
> > > When I run 'who', I notice the system takes an extremely long time
> > > to repond.  After rebooting, the problem did go away for a
> > > while. But not for long.  So I made some other changed and rebooted
> > > it again. Still, 'who' works OK after rebooting only for a short
> > > period of time.  Would anyone know how to solve this problem?
> > > thanks.
> >
> > Are you running NIS?
> 
> Yup! Any solution?

Well, it's probably taking a long time b/c the NIS setup is slow to
resolve user names--for any of 10,000 reasons.  Are you responsible
for the NIS server?  Are is NIS slow from other boxes on your network?
... need some background here...

--

Steve Farrell


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