Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:58:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Soren Harward <soren@cinternet.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *really* slow login times Message-ID: <19990411155809.I2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990410234409.A1181@cinternet.net>; from Soren Harward on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 11:44:09PM -0400 References: <19990410234409.A1181@cinternet.net>
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On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 23:44:09 -0400, 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 doesn't sound like the correct reason, but I don't have much idea what the problem is. /etc/group is a file that grows on your system, so a fresh one probably won't help. I'd recommend that you keep the one you have (rename it) and try this: # $Id: group,v 1.18 1998/12/01 21:19:49 dillon Exp $ # wheel:*:0:root daemon:*:1:daemon kmem:*:2:root sys:*:3:root tty:*:4:root operator:*:5:root mail:*:6: bin:*:7: news:*:8: man:*:9: games:*:13: staff:*:20:root guest:*:31:root bind:*:53: uucp:*:66: xten:*:67:xten dialer:*:68: network:*:69: nogroup:*:65533: nobody:*:65534: What else do you have running on the system? It would be interesting to see an "ps lt<term>" of the system while it's waiting. For example, if you try to log on to /dev/ttyv2, go to a different VT and enter $ ps ltv2 The interesting thing here is the WCHAN field, which gives a first idea of what could be causing the problem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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