Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 02:41:21 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> To: bear@pacificnet.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Identd for IRC (where is it?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809090239180.326-100000@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980908234823.0069a8f8@pacificnet.net>
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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 bear@pacificnet.net wrote: > > > I just finally got rid of Linux once and for all and installed FreeBSD. I > had been waiting to get another hardrive for the installation but I got too > imaptient and I went ahead and installed in on a 600 meg partition. I'm > slowly running out of room. :( Although, it was a very smooth > installation. :) It was much smoother than when I tried installing FreeBSD > 2.2.2, which made me quite happy. :) > > Anyways, the point of my email is because when I try to IRC I can't connect > to most of the servers because they complain that I'm not running identd. > Okay, so I went into inetd.conf to figure out what the deal was. I found > that identd was commented out, so then I uncommented it and then I killed > -HUP the inetd. > > I got some complaints in /var/messages about identd not being there. I > took at look at the inetd.conf file again to see where identd is supposed > to be - /usr/local/sbin/identd. Okay, the thing of it is that it's not there. > > Is identd installed with a new installation? Is it a package I have to > add? If so, where do I find that package and what is the package name of > identd to install? You need to install the port or package called pidentd. /usr/ports/security/pidentd And you are correct to uncomment the ident line in the ident.conf Just install the port, ( it's small ) and reboot. -- David L. Vondrasek dlv@watertower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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