From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 27 15:29:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29821 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29753 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:28:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA01679; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 03:39:45 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 03:39:43 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Stormy Henderson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed with Identd server In-Reply-To: <19980925200604.A9239@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Stormy Henderson wrote: i installed that ident daemon for IRC, but after reading up on it, i decided it was not a good idea. there are plenty of IRC servers that don't require that BS. of course, there are arguments for both sides, but why not continue to protect privacy on the Internet as long as possible before everything is "indent" ed ... (personal opinion only). > A happy camper (Joey Garcia, bear@mediaone.net) once wrote... > > for IRC and I have installed pidentd from the ports collection. I also > > uncommented the line in inetd.conf that deals with identd. I also did a > > kill -HUP on the ident daemon pid. > > I presume you mean the inetd daemon. > > > Jan 25 16:59:04 satan inetd[109]: /usr/bin/ident[9021]: exit status 0x100 > > Jan 25 16:59:04 satan inetd[109]: ident/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated > > Pidentd in installed in /usr/local/sbin/identd by default in 2.2.7. Make > sure your path is correct in /etc/inetd. > > Be happy... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message