[techtalk] Su slow?

[Linda Walsh]

jdike at karaya.com wrote:

> > When I hit the enter key after typing in the root password, it takes
> > like a minute or so. That's much slower than before.
>
> Did you recently add any new stuff to root's .profile or anything?
>
> Does the same thing happen if you su as root?  If so, try this:
>         strace -r -o strace.out su

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    I'd first edit root's .profile to turn on +x to show all the commands as they
are
executing.  When I've run into this before, it's usually been because of a
network timeout but I don't know if you are networked in this case...

-linda


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