From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 22: 6:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-atm.maine.rr.com (ns.maine.rr.com [204.210.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DF110E07 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lethvian@maine.rr.com) Received: from maine.rr.com (dt074n03.maine.rr.com [24.93.136.3]) by mail-atm.maine.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02324; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:05:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36CCFDCB.13DFDDDF@maine.rr.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:59:39 -0500 From: "Daniel J. Frost" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mahlon Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Identd problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I put these two lines into inetd.conf: ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 and restarted inetd, but got this: Feb 19 00:56:47 hostile inetd[89105]: ident/tcp: No such user 'kmem', service ignored Feb 19 00:56:47 hostile inetd[89105]: /etc/inetd.conf: syntax error did I put those lines in the wrong place? Mahlon wrote: > > Hello, > > Following my upgrade from 2.2.8-stable - > 3.1-stable, my identd > > began to function improperly. It starts up fine, and in fact I can even > > telnet to the ident port and establish an open connection, but when I go > > on IRC I still get the ~ infront of my ident. At one point, I even used > > my own ircd to see what was going on: > > > > > > I have tried reinstalling pidentd already as well as libident. If any > > further clearification is required, I'll be happy to list more of my > > findings. Thank you for your time. > > What does your line in inetd.conf look like now? > Sounds like you didn't move over the new 3.1 lines in /etc/inetd.conf > from /usr/src/etc/rc.conf. > > Ident should now be run with a line that looks something like this: > > ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd > identd -w -t120 > > Mahlon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message