I had similar problems running identd out of inetd. I ended up just
running it from rc.local

/usr/libexec/identd -b

Works fine for me.

Regards
Nigel

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:12:29PM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> Sorry for the wide distribution, but I'm not quite sure where else to take
> it...
> 
> I'm experiencing some difficulties related to identd which I can't quite
> explain, namely when trying to IRC to a few places, the remote server
> complains that it cannot contact my identd.  I have checked my firewall
> configuration and 'auth' is, indeed, an open port.
> 
> identd is called from inetd as:
> 
> auth stream tcp nowait nobody.kmem	/usr/libexec/identd identd -i -e -l
> 
> Nonstandard per installation, I'm sure, but nonetheless, IRCs are 
> telling me I need to install identd.
> 
> 				--*greywolf;
> --
> *BSD: For The Network Generation

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