Question about su and network

[Ed Schouten]

* Fred Gilham <gilham at csl.sri.com> wrote:
> When my ISDN line was down yesterday, I noticed that su from an xterm
> would hang on my FreeBSD box.  Logging in as root from a virtual console
> would work OK.  After the network came back everything went back to
> normal.
> 
> Is there a way I can avoid this behavior?  I mean the hanging, not the
> return to normal operation. :-)

This would probably have happened because your DNS server was
unreachable (su tries to resolve your hostname for the logfiles). This
can be solved by adding your own host to /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.3	myhostname myhostname.mydomain.foo

Yours,
-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
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