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From: Wayne M Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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Subject: passwd hang or DNS
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:19:17 -0500 (CDT)
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Dear Mike,

    Why would passwd care about the DNS setup?

    I tried your suggestion to 'stty status ^T'
Here is the output from a few ^T: 

    wayne@klentaq:/home/wayne>passwd
    load: 1.00  cmd: passwd 41655 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 644k
    load: 1.00  cmd: passwd 41655 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 644k
    load: 1.00  cmd: passwd 41655 [nanslp] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 644k
    ^C

    Here we go for the hanging 'send-pr':
wayne@klentaq:/home/wayne>send-pr
load: 1.01  cmd: sed 41816 [piperd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 492k
load: 1.01  cmd: sed 41816 [piperd] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 492k

    I don't see the [select] that you predicted.  Also, I can do most 
any network function from my system one, so I think its DNS is okay.

    Do you have any other ideas?

Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D.                        wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu


The following output is reproduced without flame retardant:
> 
> > Dear FreeBSD,
> > 
> >     passwd is broke *again*
> 
> Actually, your symptoms indicate that nothing whatsoever is wrong with 
> passwd.  In addition, the tone of your message is quite unacceptable, 
> especially since you appear to be in error.  Thirdly, this is not the 
> correct list to be posting such a question to.
> 
> >     I have 2 systems that won't do this command properly.  The first one is
> > wayne@klentaq:/etc>uname -a
> > FreeBSD klentaq.com 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #6: Wed Sep 22 16:28:38 
> > CDT 1999     wayne@klentaq.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENEONE  i386
> > 
> > When I enter the command 'passwd', nothing comes back.  It's the same
> > with the command 'send-pr'.
> > 
> >     My second system is a fresh install from the 3.3 CD.  Same thing.
> > But while typing up this message, I notice that it does
> > respond after a *ONE MINUTE FORTY SECOND PAUSE* pause.  
> 
> It may be instructive for you to know that standard DNS timeout value 
> is approximately ******SEVENTY SECONDS******.
> 
> >     This happens to me so much.  Can I be the only one?
> 
> No, there are other people out there with busted DNS setups too.  You 
> can confirm that it's DNS by saying 'stty status ^T' before you run the 
> offending command and then hit ^T while it's running; you should see 
> [select] in the output you get.
> 



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