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From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
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Subject: Re: /bin/login hangs if an NFS server down?
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chris@com50.c2s.mn.org (Chris Johnson) writes:
>Instead of mounting with the noquota option
>(since it's not a default, you'll have to remember it all the time for
>manual mounts), we here instead just replaced /usr/ucb/quota with a link
>to /usr/bin/true.  Makes things run a lot quicker at bootup and login,
>since the quota check turns into a very short program call.

Alternatively, even if your site is running quotas, you can create
.hushlogin in your home directory and /bin/login will not call
/usr/ucb/quota.  It will also not check for mail etc but you can do that
yourself in .profile.

David Wilson	Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au