Re: tar crashing system

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

At 08:49 AM 10/13/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Does it lock up or just get very slow? Make sure that you're not running
>NIS (ypbind and company) on this machine unless you need it. 

Just run portmapper and it will work fine.  For whatever reason tar
interacts with portmapper and when it's not running it waits for a timeout.


-Barrett




Barrett G. Lyon
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[Q]: Hey, do they test this stuff before it's released?  
[A]: Sure they do... "It compiles, it's ready!"