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From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
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Subject: Re: internal auth and inetd don't seem to like each other
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On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 12:38:40AM +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm attempting to use the internal auth.  I'm failing.
> 
> I enable the following in /etc/inetd.conf:
> 
> auth    stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal        auth -r -f -n -o 
> UNKNOWN -t 30
> 
> Then I killall -hup inetd
> 
> And I see this in /var/log/messages when I try to connect to an IRC 
> server, I get these:
> 
> Sep 17 00:16:26 ducky inetd[13754]: cannot execute internal: No such 
> file or directory
> 
> I've found nothing in the questions mailing list archives.
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD ducky.nz.freebsd.org 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: 
> Mon Aug 21 18:17:33 NZST 2000     
> root@ducky.nz.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DUCKY  i386
> 
> Others seem to have this working.  No idea why I can't.

It seems to work fine for me,

  FreeBSD 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #7: Tue Aug  8 22:44:30 PDT 2000     cjc@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CJC-DESKTOP  i386

Have you tried running inetd in debug mode, -d?

> side note: from what I've seen of other working examples, I don't think 
> this will provide a working auth for boxes behind the fw/nat box (on 
> which the above was done).

You are saying you will run this on the NAT box? It should work
fine. Use '-d' or '-g' options for auth.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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