Hmmmm...... looking bad

[Garance A Drosehn]

> I keep getting: 
> May  4 19:36:28 mashallah OmniWeb[525]: Couldn't save window 
> 
> suddenly my Terminal windows hang on "ls -l" :
> 
>      [mashallah:borrel]//borrel/temp 20% ls -l
>      total 82
>      ^C
> 
> I had to break it. When I quit Omnipage, it was OK again.
> 
> Omnipage had a lot of timeouts with the URL's that had been
> requested prior to the problem.

This problem is NeXTSTEP's, or netinfo's, or somewhere in there.
My guess is that it's not in OmniWeb per se.  If the problem was
timeouts while looking up the *hostname* (in a DNS sense), then
all other netinfo accesses are stuck behind that host name lookup.
Some problem like this is implied by your problems with "ls -l".
The "ls" command is hanging up trying to map UID's (the number)
to userid's (the character string).  You'd probably see the same
kind of hang with a "ps -u", but not see it with a "ps -un".

This is just a guess on my part, of course.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad at eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA