Passwd command slow

[Mike Tancsa]

I would say double check NIS didnt accidentally get set up.

         ---Mike

At 11:07 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
>Hello Mike,
>
>It shows:
>548    1028   37390 /etc/passwd
>
>I am not running NIS
>
>Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 6:19:41 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>MT> Wat does
>MT> wc /etc/passwd
>MT> show ?
>
>MT> Are you running NIS ?
>
>MT>          ---Mike
>
>MT> At 09:13 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
> >>Hello Mike,
> >>
> >>I tried that and it didn't help.
> >>Is there anything else I can try?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 6:06:47 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>MT> If you have a large password file, increase the cache size of pwd_mkdb
> >>
> >>MT> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb
> >>
> >>MT> edit pwd_mkdb.c
> >>
> >>MT> On line 74 you see
> >>MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
> >>MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
> >>MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
> >>MT>          256,            /* nelem */
> >>MT>          2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
> >>MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
> >>MT>          0               /* lorder */
> >>MT> };
> >>
> >>MT> do something like
> >>
> >>MT> HASHINFO openinfo = {
> >>MT>          4096,           /* bsize */
> >>MT>          32,             /* ffactor */
> >>MT>          256,            /* nelem */
> >>MT>          32 * 2048 * 1024,    /* cachesize */
> >>MT>          NULL,           /* hash() */
> >>MT>          0               /* lorder */
> >>MT> };
> >>
> >>
> >>MT> Then
> >>
> >>MT> make depend
> >>MT> make
> >>MT> make install
> >>
> >>MT>          ---Mike
> >>MT> At 08:51 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
> >> >>Hello Everyone,
> >> >>
> >> >>I have a server running freebsd 4.8.
> >> >>When you type the command "passwd" it hangs for more than 2 minutes
> >> >>before it finally responds and prompts to change an existing users
> >> >>password.
> >> >>
> >> >>Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
> >> >>
> >> >>Thanks for the help.
> >> >>
> >> >>--
> >> >>Best regards,
> >> >>  Greg Goodman                          mailto:admin at fastserve.net
> >> >>
> >> >>  Chief Technical Officer
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> >>--
> >>Best regards,
> >>  Greg Goodman                          mailto:admin at fastserve.net
> >>
> >>  Chief Technical Officer
> >>
> >>               Fastserve Network
> >>            http://www.fastserve.net
> >>               (213)673-4440 ext 204
> >>         548 S. Spring St. Suite 1100
> >>            Los Angeles Ca. 90013
> >>    The Net Never Sleeps And Neither Do We
>
>
>
>--
>Best regards,
>  Greg                            mailto:admin at fastserve.net