> and this shows up in xconsole:
> Jan 27 14:11:13 reedb inetd[2549]: getpwnam: nobody: No such user
> each time someone tries to finger someone on my machine.

Sounds like you have removed the user entry for "nobody" without removing
the references to it in /etc/inetd.conf.

Thorsten
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