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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:01:27 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: xander@agizubna.relcom.ru
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Please help!
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On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:10:20PM +0300, XaN wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have found the following lines which repeat many times (up to hundred)
> in /var/log/messages files at my FreeBSD computer:
>
> Jan  5 21:50:23 pref inetd[3009]: cannot execute /usr/local/sbin/identd:
> No such file or directory
> Jan  5 21:50:23 pref inetd[107]: /usr/local/sbin/identd[3009]: exit
> status 0x4700
>
> What does it mean?

It's saying:

  /usr/local/sbin/identd: No such file or directory

inetd is trying to run it.  Do you want to run identd?  The closest I
can get to that is pidentd in the Ports Collection.

If you don't want to run it, find the following line in
/etc/inetd.conf:

  ident	stream	tcp	wait	root	/usr/local/sbin/identd	identd -w -t120

and change it to:

#  ident	stream	tcp	wait	root	/usr/local/sbin/identd	identd -w -t120

In other words, comment it out.  Then send a SIGHUP to inetd:

# ps aux | grep inetd
root   16150  0.0  0.5   264  460  p5  S+   12:00PM   0:00.02 grep inetd
root     117  0.0  0.1   252   64  ??  Is   26Dec97   0:04.24 inetd
         ^^^
This one

# kill -1 117

That should stop things.

Greg