From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 9 03:14:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16753 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com [24.2.5.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA16748 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nellie@home.com) Received: from cc219337-a.lwmrn1.pa.home.com ([24.3.111.2]) by ha1.rdc1.pa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA3474; Wed, 9 Sep 1998 03:14:29 -0700 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 06:09:40 -0400 (EDT) From: dmb To: bear@pacificnet.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Identd for IRC (where is it?) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980908234823.0069a8f8@pacificnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG go to /usr/ports/security/pidentd type make ; make install. 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? > > Thanks for you help, > > > Joey Bear Garcia > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message