On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 12:35:40PM +0530, Kedar Patankar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I observed a strange behavior with RH 6.1. If I telnet into a box,
> and try "su", it gives me the password prompt all right, but after
> entering the passwd, it takes a long (about 10-30 seconds) to give me the
> root shell.
It's most probably something trying to do a DNS lookup on a name that
doesn't exist and times out. See if you can find some clues in
/var/log/messages.
-Arun
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