Re: Big delay on login: What's wrong?

["Andrei A. Voropaev" <av@simcon-mt.com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:49:52AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm on a Pentium 120 with FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE, and zsh-4.2.5.
> When I log in, I have to wait in between 5 to 10 seconds before
> the prompt displays. Even though I use a functional zshrc file
> that has proven to work on other systems, things like auto
> completion doesn't seem to work in this case.
> 
> # cat /etc/zshrc
> #
> http://www.home.no/hedhnta/zshrc
> 
> # cat /etc/zlogout
> #
> http://www.home.no/hedhnta/zlogout
> 
> # zsh -x
> #
> http://www.home.no/hedhnta/zsh-x
> 
> Somebody know?

Most likely it has nothing to do with zsh. Once we had the same problem
because one of the daemons (I think ident) was trying to connect back to
the machine where connection was coming from to find out username there.
And we had firewall that was blocking those connections. So, login had
to wait till that daemon gave up.

YMMV.

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