From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 9:47:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9D9E37B406 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 12 Oct 2001 17:47:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:47:22 +0100 From: David Malone To: Kresimir Kumericki Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "cannot execute identd" log message? Message-ID: <20011012174722.A83829@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20011012134714.A30925@phy.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011012134714.A30925@phy.hr>; from kkumer@phy.hr on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:47:14PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:47:14PM +0200, Kresimir Kumericki wrote: > Since I updated to 4.4-R every day I find the following lines in > logs of one of my macines: > > inetd[48655]: cannot execute /usr/local/sbin/identd: No such file or directory > [repeats many times] > inetd[172]: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated > > I don't have identd installed so I understand that inetd cannot > execute it, but my problem is that I don't understand why is it trying > to execute it in the first place since all auth/identd lines in my > /etc/inetd.conf are commented out. Only services that are not commented > out are ftp,finger,comsat and ntalk. Any clues? Could you have had identd commented in at some stage recently and forgotten to comment it out again? This would seem like the most likely cause. Otherwise, check what arguments inetd is running with ps -auxwww | fgrep inetd make sure you get the one with PID 172 in this case. Maybe someone is running one which is configured to run from a different config file. You could also use "sockstat" to find out if inetd is providing any other services which you don't expect it to. (As an aside, there is a small identd built in to FreeBSD's version of inetd which it can be told to use instead of an external one). David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message