Inetd running slow

[Danilo Turina]

I had a problem of slowness with inetd and telnetd: when connecting with 
telnet to my machine (even locally) it took much time to prompt for the 
user name.
I discovered that it was due to the SYSTEM user missing a home in 
/etc/passwd, i.e. when I had the problem the line in /etc/passwd was:

SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::

then I fixed it this way:

SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:/tmp:

and the slowness went away (but don't ask me why: I don't know).

Ciao,

		Danilo

Stephen Patterson wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've installed inetutils & uw-imapd on cygwin, registered inet as a
> windows XP service (which starts OK) and I'm running uw-imapd through
> inetd. Inetd & uw-imap are slow to respond when I connect to them
> locally.
> 
> Info from event viewer, application log on starting inetd
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( inetd ) cannot be
> found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
> computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this
> description; see Help and Support for details. The following
> information is part of the event: inetd : PID 4060 : `inetd' service
> started.
> 
> Info from event viewer, application log on connecting to uw-imap
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( uw-imapd ) cannot be
> found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
> information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
> computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this
> description; see Help and Support for details. The following
> information is part of the event: uw-imapd : PID 4052 : imap service
> init from 127.0.0.1.
> 
> Does anyone know what could be causing these messages?  I've added
> cygwin's /usr/sbin and /bin to the system PATH (as mentioned on an
> earlier post).
> 


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