Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: > But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line > /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID > for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time.
Are you sure it's a problem with perl? I've had the same problem with tar becoming dog-slow because I had `compat' in /etc/nsswitch.conf. Changing that to `nis files' fixed the speed-problem. You could probably use strace to check what is really causing the delay. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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