From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 5:28:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sblake.comcen.com.au (sblake.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0377C14DD1 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 05:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aunty@sblake.comcen.com.au) Received: (from aunty@localhost) by sblake.comcen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA70974 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 00:30:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from aunty) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 00:30:02 +1100 From: aunty To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: inetd: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated Message-ID: <20000102003002.C65534@comcen.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One or two problems here? I get this server failing (looping) error message every time an email arrives on this 3.3R system. Maybe it's related to the following problem too, though it does say auth/tcp and not ident/tcp. Also, I can't use most irc servers because they say there's no identd when as far as I'm concerned it should be working. I have installed pidentd port and /usr/local/sbin/identd is present. /etc/inetd.conf contains only this (default) line: auth stream tcp wait root /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120 inetd has been sent a SIGHUP several times. /etc/hosts.allow starts with ALL : ALL : allow The freebsd-questions archive has a few slightly similar questions. The most similar question/answer I found was the one below from Doug White. If this is relevant to my problem(s) then I have another two questions: which program is the one that's being run wrong? which man page? === snipped message from questions archive === Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:16:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Anonymous Coward Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd, pidentd, service failed: looping Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <375896F6.36F16F24@tir.com> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote: > so i couldn't irc because most servers need identd, so i searched the > freebsd mailing list archives found help on that, then i do it and > whenever i try to use irc i'll get "inetd[140]: ident/tcp server > failing (looping), service terminated" scrolled 3 or 4 times. so i > search the archives for that and i see some people that had that problem > but no responses to the questions so can anyone help me out? You're running it wrong. Check the manpage. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ www@freebsd.org -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message