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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 22:44:12 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199901112144.WAA00523@piglet.cpu.lu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v04103c34b2bf2769a22d@[206.163.71.146]>


An additional thought crossed my mind....

On  10 Jan, this message from Joel Klecker echoed through cyberspace:
> 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.

Ah, /etc/nsswitch.conf. So it was the glibc package that made the
timeout reappear! In fact, I did just upgrade glibc before I saw the
timeout again...

Thanks

Michel

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      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-01-11 21:44 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
1999-01-11 21:44   ` Michel Lanners [this message]

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