delay in connection from a user other than root. 1

[Pdhawan]

Hi,

I am having a very peculiar problem.
When I login as “ROOT” on to my UNIX server I can connect to CICS middleware (using cicsterm) in no time.
But when I login through any other User, and then try to connect to the CICS middleware, UNIX sever takes few minutes before it loads the CICS Screen.
Same thing is happening when, I am trying to login onto the Sybase database running on the same UNIX server.
If a try to connect to sybase user as Root, it has no problems and I get the database prompt, as soon as I enter the password.
But if I login as a different user (other than root) and try to connect to the Sybase server, it takes around 2 min and 50 sec to show me the database prompt.

Regards
Puneet

 

[mmark7]

I had a similiar problem in the past - but I don't remember if I was able login properly as root.

Please tell me if there is everything OK with /etc/netsvc.conf file and if user's home directory belongs to the user (show: ls -ld ~username)

As I remember in my case the solution was changing in /etc/netsvc.conf bind with bind4.


regards, Mark

 

[spamly]

mmark7 is right on. I've seen this issue too. It usually boils down to how the system is (or is not) resolving the client's host. Check /etc/netsvc.conf, /etc/resolv.conf, and your /etc/hosts file for irregularities.

I've also seen this issue come up when a remote DNS server is flaking out.