From: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
To: jk@espy.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Strange tar hang....
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:36:47 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901112136.WAA00520@piglet.cpu.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04103c34b2bf2769a22d@[206.163.71.146]>
Hi there,
On 10 Jan, this message from Joel Klecker echoed through cyberspace:
>>Could this be a problem in the networking code of the kernel?
>
> tar tries to look up UIDs and GIDs in the tar file and match them to
> local users. With the default /etc/nsswitch.conf, it will end up
> trying NIS and other services.
OK, that prevented the timeout; thanks for the tip. Question is, should
the timeout have occurred in the first place?
Michel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-11 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-10 17:14 Strange tar hang Michel Lanners
1999-01-11 4:05 ` Joel Klecker
1999-01-11 21:36 ` Michel Lanners [this message]
1999-01-11 21:44 ` Michel Lanners
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