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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:33:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Kresimir Kumericki <kkumer@phy.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "cannot execute identd" log message?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110121332510.3435-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20011012134714.A30925@phy.hr>

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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, 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?

The log messages are definitely coming from inetd.  Did you restart inetd
(kill -1 `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`) after making the changes to
/etc/inetd.conf?

--
Matt Emmerton



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