From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:33:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1636837B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A1143E5E for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sschwarzer@sschwarzer.net) Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng0.kundenserver.de) by moutng7.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17ZyI5-0002uS-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:33:45 +0200 Received: from p508e46f1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.142.70.241] helo=sschwarzer.net) by mrelayng0.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17ZyI5-000051-00; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:33:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:36:54 +0200 From: Stefan Schwarzer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020720 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: passwd(5) line order causes blocking of top(1) - why? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello About a week ago I had a problem with a top(1) that blocked. I found a workaround after discovering that the blocking occured when a NIS netgroup entry in passwd(5) was placed before any of its users' entries (for a more thourough description of the backgound see the second link given below). Ok, I found a workaround, but can anyone explain this behaviour? Is it a bug in FreeBSD? Reference URLs: My original question: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=153740+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20020728.freebsd-questions The description of a solution (or rather a workaround) and the background of my question at the top of this mail: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=639426+0+archive/2002/freebsd-questions/20020728.freebsd-questions Many thanks in advance for your replies :-) Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message