From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199901112144.WAA00523@piglet.cpu.lu> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:44:12 +0100 (CET) From: Michel Lanners Reply-To: mlan@cpu.lu Subject: Re: Strange tar hang.... To: jk@espy.org cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 9, Montee St. Crepin | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1365 Luxembourg | email mlan@cpu.lu | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]