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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to eliminate long pauses and/or net dialling at login?
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Donald Burr writes:
> Whenever I boot my machine and login for the first time (whether I login 
> as root or my own personal account), I either get a LONG pause (right 
> after the motd prints out, and right before my .login/.cshrc is 
> executed).  And since I recently got dial-on-demand PPP set up, the PPP 
> connection also dials out during this long pause.
> 
> This is kinda annoying, to say the least, and I would like to eliminate 
> the long pauses and net dialing right after login, if possible.

Are you using tcsh as your login shell?  If so, that's the reason.  A
bug in tcsh which is now fixed caused it to resolve the hostname for
some reason.  Either get a new binary or add your hostname (and
localhost) to /etc/hosts and have modify /etc/host.conf to use
/etc/hosts first.

> Has it something to do with the fact that I'm using tcsh as my login 
> shell?

Yep.


Nate