From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 13: 9:41 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 BEC0A37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BA543E65 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6VK9ZJu021367; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:09:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6VK9Zu0021366; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:09:35 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:09:35 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Stefan Schwarzer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd(5) line order causes blocking of top(1) - why? Message-ID: <20020731200935.GB21257@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D482E46.5000904@sschwarzer.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:36:54PM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > 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? I'd say yes; and you should file a PR with send-pr to flag the maintainers to have a look at it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message