On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 17:08 +0200, Bernhard Gschaider wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a CentOS4.7-machine as a fileserver. The machine also serves > as the LDAP-server against which all regular users are > authenticated. The problem I am having is that the machine takes a > very long time to boot. Most of the services start up rather quick, > but three services take quite a long time (extending the boot time to > over half an hour, which is .... long) > > The three services are (in that order): > > - NFS statd > - LDAP > - NFS quota > > As soon as the LDAP-Service (and sshd) has started I can remotly log > into the machine: the rpc.quotad has started but takes no CPU-time (so > I guess he must be waiting for something) > > Some other observations I had: > - a restart of LDAP takes several minutes > - if the LDAP-service is down a "su ldap" (ldap IS in /etc/passwd) > seems to hang. The ldap-service-script does such a su to check the > configuration so I guess that is what takes the service so long) > > Could anyone give me a hint what the problem could be and how to fix > it? Is any more information required (don't want to spam you with the > nsswitch.conf and the whole pam.d-stuff)? ---- add this to the bottom of /etc/ldap.conf timelimit 30 bind_timelimit 30 bind_policy soft nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap Craig