'Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:' > >Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, 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. >> >>I fear that this perl bug is serious. > >Something is wrong with your installation or possibly libc. I compiled >perl-5.003_07 and perl-5.004_04 on a Solaris box with 5000 users. The >5.004_04 was somewhat faster.
Maybe it's a problem with perl on libc6 systems with shadow passwords??? It was a straightforward upgrade from bo. I can't imagine how a misconfiguration could cause this. I have the latest of everything relevant installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l libc6 perl passwd adduser Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-4 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii perl 5.004.04-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii passwd 980403-0.2 Change and administer password and group dat ii adduser 3.8 Add users and groups to the system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48419 Jun 15 21:41 /etc/group -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 35754 Jun 15 21:41 /etc/gshadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191178 Jun 15 21:41 /etc/passwd -rw-r----- 1 root shadow 124656 Jun 15 21:41 /etc/shadow Could it be a problem with shadow passwords? -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]