[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi_151a update?

Gary Gendel gary at genashor.com
Wed Feb 15 15:58:29 UTC 2012


On 2/15/12 10:44 AM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 16:11, Gary Gendel<gary at genashor.com>  wrote:
>> On 2/15/12 10:03 AM, Daniel Kjar wrote:
>>> successfully updated as well.  Fonts do seem much sharper.  Very nice.
>>>   Still have this funkiness where if I reboot (even without an update) the
>>> system kernel panics right before or as X is loading, system restarts and
>>> then boots up fine.  I suspect hardware issues though.  Strangely enough ssh
>>> handshake with my other servers seems much faster now so something seems to
>>> be working better in the guts as well.  This is a very crusty install
>>> (originally opensolaris and updated repeatedly a very early version of that
>>> as well) so I am never surprised at wackiness.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for every ones hard work on this.  Excellent job.  My main server
>>> will be moving to OI from Solaris this summer.
>>>
>> My ssh handshake was also much faster initially, but it didn't keep.  It's a
>> strange situation where sometimes I get the login prompt immediately, and
>> sometimes it takes several seconds.  It's acting like sometimes it gets held
>> on network timeout and sometimes there is none.  I thought it might have
>> been due to DNS lookups but I shut the ssh name resolution checks down in
>> the configuration without a difference.  It's frustrating since every time I
>> think I've resolved it it's only behaving nice for a short while.
>>
>> Gary
> I usually disable GSS-API authentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config in
> order to make login times faster. It can be disabled by adding the
> following line and restarting sshd afterwards:
>
> GSSAPIAuthentication no

Thanks.  It's fast now and I've re-enabled Reverse Mapping 
verification.  With luck it will stay that way. :)

Gary




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