gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:55:24 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] xdm delays


On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:48:54PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> man, you took my genuity away. i straced it already and the following
> are the offending lines:
> 
> 9494  17:35:21 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFCONF, 0xbfffccdc) = 0
> 9494  17:35:21 ioctl(3, SIOCGIFFLAGS, 0xbfffcce4) = 0
> 9494  17:35:21 sendto(3, "\1\33\35n\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0
>     \0\2\0\0\0\3\0"..., 56, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111),
>     sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 56
> 9494  17:35:21 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0
> 
> and it does that for precisely 60 seconds.

Eww. It's looking for an NIS master. After authenticating locally.
That's ridiculous. (... but it should have been the other thing I
suggested when I first suggested Kerberos, I suppose.)

> now, the above is clearly some form of requesting to sunrpc (portmap),
> which i am not even running. question is what the heck it is
> requesting.
> is NIS running over sunrpc?

Um, well, NIS/YP *always* uses portmap. That's how RPC services work.

... but you don't want to be a YP client, and you should be able to
tell xdm this somehow.

What starts xdm? Something in rc? There should be a flag or variable
set there that's causing this yp-client request behavior.

> how do i disable this once and for all???

That Debian list you Cc'ed can answer better than I, but check your
rc stuff to see if I'm right if you've not heard back from it yet.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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