From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 4 18:36:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copland.udel.edu (copland.udel.edu [128.175.13.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BEF153AB for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:36:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from papalia@UDel.Edu) Received: from morgaine (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by copland.udel.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA15789; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:36:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19991204212802.0098e680@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 21:32:13 -0500 To: "nat" , From: John Subject: Re: identd w/IRC... In-Reply-To: <001201bf3ec1$11a501a0$0300a8c0@orng1.occa.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If your login shows the ~ before it on irc, then your identd is, in fact, not working. Make sure that: 1) You have pidentd installed from the ports 2) You have an identd line inside your /etc/inetd.conf that looks like: ident stream tcp wait root /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 3) That the above line, if it does appear in your inetd.conf shows the user as "root" (like above) and not kmem:kmem, which will not work if you're running 3.x 4) That you have inetd enabled in your /etc/rc.conf via: inetd_enable="YES" # Run the network daemon dispatcher (or NO). inetd_flags="-l" # Optional flags to inetd. If you had to add the line mentioned in #2 above, you just need to kill -HUP your inetd process and all should be well. A friend of mine had problems with identd as well, but his problems went as far as to the fact that his /etc/rc.conf was *completely* empty. Hopefully you don't have that problem :) Good luck, and hope this helps, John > > I am running identd but for some reason i cannot connect to DALnet > on IRC w/cable. they say that i am not running identd. > > i think the problem is that identd includes the ~ and Dalnet does not > like that. how can i fix this? > > thanx, > > nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message