From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 11:40:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A162F14D0F for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01548; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:38:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Soren Harward Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *really* slow login times In-Reply-To: <19990410234409.A1181@cinternet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Soren Harward wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 3.1 on my K6-2 300 a few days ago, and I've been > having a small problem with the login procedure. If I reboot the system > clean, then I can log in with no problems. But after about 24 hours or > so, the login starts taking a *very* long time (more than 10 minutes) > to find my username and ask me for my password. Any idea what's going > on? I think it may have something to do with corruption of my > /etc/group file. Could someone send me a copy of a clean one? This sounds more like broken reverse DNS. See if you can look up the name attached to the IP address of your workstation. Do you have NIS enabled? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message