Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:38:19 +0000
From:      Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To:        "Christian Nelson" <freshzive@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question Regarding IENTD
Message-ID:  <20020201093819.10e8ecc3.matt@proweb.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <020401c1aae3$bd106170$0100a8c0@freestylin>
References:  <020401c1aae3$bd106170$0100a8c0@freestylin>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:04 -0800
"Christian Nelson" <freshzive@charter.net> wrote:

> Hi..I'm new to the mailing lists.so give me a break here..and let me
> know if I'm doing this totally wrong.

yeah, you should direct questions to freebsd-questions and not newbies

newbies is for, well, people to discuss what it's like being a newbie and I've never seen any traffic in here regarding newbieism butI do see plenty of mis-directed questions...


> (http/ssh/ssh2/ftp all work fine) except that for some reason I cannot
> get IDENTD to work. I had it running before it was behind the router
> fine and it worked great.

Once they dig around a bit most people dump inetd as it's not a great piece of software. Apparently it leaks memory (bad thing) and can be insecure (badder thing)

the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwrapeprs or tcpserver

I use tcpserver because that's what gets installed when you replace sendmail with qmail

you might get different and possibly better advice from freebsd-questions though

M

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020201093819.10e8ecc3.matt>