Very slow terminal commands in RHEL-5.4 / Scientific

spoovy · 04-08-2010, 04:53 PM

I have a new installation of Scientific Linux, which is basically RHEL/CentOS 5.4.

Everything works fine with it, its nice to see KDE3.5 again

BUT

certain commands in cli (console, konsole, xterm whatever) take an age to run. The worst offender is vim, which takes about 20 seconds to open fstab for example. Even mkdir takes about 10 seconds to run.

I am used to these type of operations being almost instantaneous, so there is obviously something wrong here, but I can't imagine what.

Any help gratefully accepted.

spoov

spoovy · 04-08-2010, 05:02 PM

I've found out it is something to do with permissions, as it only happens when using sudo. I may have been too hasty asking for help...

EDIT - sorted it. For the record if anyone else has this problem, it is because the /etc/host file was not configured properly. I had the incorrect hostname set.
The Scientific Linux installer is so stone-age I missed this. d'oh!

DrLove73 · 04-08-2010, 05:37 PM

Do you have hostname properly set? I experienced Terminal opening several minutes because I have set hostname that is not resolvable so CentOS gets confused for limited amount of time.