Using the trial internal entropy gathering routines Damien so
kindly provided, I noticed stuff happening slowly. I think I've
traced this to the 'ls -alni /var/mail' taking a long time.
Given that this is likely to hurt a few sites similar to mine
(large number of users with an NFS-mounted /var/mail directory) is
it sensible to put a configure option in to disable this part?
I attach a patch to do this. It adds a configure option,
--without-lsmail. I'm not terribly happy with its name and I
haven't patched any of the docs.
Thanks,
Andrew Stribblehill
Systems Programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England.
kindly provided, I noticed stuff happening slowly. I think I've
traced this to the 'ls -alni /var/mail' taking a long time.
Given that this is likely to hurt a few sites similar to mine
(large number of users with an NFS-mounted /var/mail directory) is
it sensible to put a configure option in to disable this part?
I attach a patch to do this. It adds a configure option,
--without-lsmail. I'm not terribly happy with its name and I
haven't patched any of the docs.
Thanks,
Andrew Stribblehill
Systems Programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England.