Quick Questions

[Scunningham99]

Hi

We have just installed a v880 and when we use a term session to connect the root login prompt takes about 45 seconds to come up..... anyone have any ideas or seen this b4.

Also we login as root and TERM is set to dec-vt420. I cannot see where this is being populated anywhere in /etc/profile... and there is nothing in .profile for root. We are using sh shell.... also there is no .bashrc in /

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

SY

 

[mattrumik]

if you immediately logout and login again,
does it still take 45 secs?

(I had this, too)

 

[Scunningham99]

yes for any session

 

[mattrumik]

hmmm,
> I cannot see where this is being populated anywhere in
> /etc/profile.. and there is nothing in .profile for root
> We are using sh shell.... also there is no .bashrc in
that is going to fast
You connect with dec-vt420 and you want to say, nothing
is attached / set-up anywhere? I think (and You probably
agree?), that is not the problem.

I had this independent of the terminal I used.
Still have to find the notes what I did to make it go away.
searching ......

 

[Annihilannic]

I had a similar problem on SCO OpenServer which was due to a DNS issue. When you log in via telnet the system attempts a reverse look up of your IP address to try and determine the host name you are connecting from to store in /var/adm/wtmp(x). This may not be true of Solaris though...

Try testing reverse DNS lookups using nslookup 1.2.3.4 where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the workstation you are connecting from and see if it takes a long time to respond. Annihilannic.

 

[mattrumik]

yup, but this is only during the first login; or you
flush the ARP cache often (?);
afterwards it should work with normal speed (shouldn't it?)

 

[gca007]

hello guys
first check the /etc/nsswitch.conf
if you have the line hosts:files dns
check /etc/hosts file

some many times when the server is running dns this problem appear.

The solution is put the ip address and the name of your workstation(pc or other) on /etc/hosts file

i'll hope this tip will be useful