is there anything unusual in /var/log/messages when you su?
for example: in mine this line shows up:
Feb 5 13:45:56 teep su[13164]: + tty8 lyta-root
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
>
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
> >
> > Then look at the first column in strace.out, which is the time since the last
> > system call, and keep an eye out for a big number. The thing right before
> > that should be the culprit.
>
> The strace.out was a couple of pages, the biggest number by far was
>
> 0.000406 read(5, "", 256) = 0
> 20.108991 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
>
> 20.108991 the big number...
>
> read(5, "", 256) doesn't sound like something comprehensible... should I paste
> more of the strace.out?
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