From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 12:51:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA17275 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:51:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17269 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 12:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA21614; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:45:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602222045.NAA21614@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: sendmail/identd To: swaits@pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:45:36 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Waits" at Feb 22, 96 01:10:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I don't think identd stuff is logged at all. > > Actually, it is. (Thanks to Guy Helmer for help). It's logged in > syslog's mail.info as well as in the message's headers. It says > something like relay=username@host in the syslog and Receved from > username@host by localhost in the message header. > > Additionally, I could ONLY make this work if I used the "-i" mode of > pidentd. The "-w" mode simply would not work with sendmail and I didn't > try running identd in standalone mode. > > I found this pretty weird, but sorta said, "oh well".. I'd rather my > inetd not get so hammered.. > > Any ideas? Uh... it's broke? 8-). Probably it's the code to put it into the background. Try man 3 daemon. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.