/bin/login hangs if an NFS server down?

[David E A Wilson]

chris at 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 at cs.uow.edu.au