From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 15:16: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C309A15190 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA16706; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:16:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Anonymous Coward Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd, pidentd, service failed: looping In-Reply-To: <375896F6.36F16F24@tir.com> 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 On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Anonymous Coward wrote: > so i couldn't irc because most servers need identd, so i searched the > freebsd mailing list archives found help on that, then i do it and > whenever i try to use irc i'll get "inetd[140]: ident/tcp server > failing (looping), service terminated" scrolled 3 or 4 times. so i > search the archives for that and i see some people that had that problem > but no responses to the questions so can anyone help me out? You're running it wrong. Check the manpage. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message