From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 10:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74E4737B405 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.93.39.114]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20011012174154.FEZH17332.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:41:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f9CHXf203437; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:33:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:33:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Kresimir Kumericki Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "cannot execute identd" log message? In-Reply-To: <20011012134714.A30925@phy.hr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message