Re: Slow linux server

[Alan Wilson <awilson@accessus.net>]

How do fix it so that mars_nwe doesn't start on reboot?

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Sean /The RIMBoy/ wrote:

> 
> I was actually going to suggest this very thing, but then the email
> crossed the list about Mars_nwe, I figured you had your culprit.  Tis the
> life of reverse DNS.
> 
> Anyway, poke around in /etc/rc.d/init.d and see if there is some sort of
> reference to mars_nwe ... if there is stop it.  Usually it is via
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/process(server) stop
> 
> ie, if it was named mars_nwe in init.d
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mars_nwe stop
> 
> >From there you should be able to remove it... Although I have not done
> that myself.  Anyone care to clarify?
> 
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Walker West wrote:
> > > Alan:
> > > 
> > > I'm a lurker on the SILUG mailing list; I was a member of the EASUG
> > > group that Steve started in Evansville.  I've had the same problem when
> > > the client machines weren't set up in reverse DNS or the hosts file. 
> > > Just to experiment, try adding one of the workstations to your hosts
> > > file and then telnet in from that client.
> > 
> > Actually, you might have hit the nail on the head.  Later today I got to
> > looking through the logs and the machine spent quite a bit of time trying to
> > hit a non-existant name server.  Kaskaskia College had to change the ip's of
> > all the machines on campus including its local nameserver which does the
> > reverse DNS.  After I changed the DNS server on the slow machine, it speeded
> > up quite a bit.
> 
> Sean...
> 
> Everything you know is wrong,
> Just forget the words and sing along.    --Weird Al
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