On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Robert Nesius wrote: > > Yep - and notice the '-' in the su command. I would see if you can >> reproduce the lag with and without the '-'. >> > > Yup. I was able to do that... and I think the culprit was Samba. That's > where the delays were, anyway, and now that I've nuked Samba off that > machine it seems not to happen (not that I can reboot yet, but it hasn't > happened all day). > > Looks like login/su were trying to authenticate to samba for some reason... > didn't bother investigating, I don't really have any need for Samba on my > network anymore (this was legacy from five years ago) so I just kicked it > off! > Doh!!!! I almost asked if you had ever messed around with SAMBA and then stopped using it, as I was thinking that might have left something in a config file that triggered a timeout. My wife loves it when this happens, as she enjoys telling me "you were almost right!" ;-) ;-) -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100829/dda218bf/attachment.htm