Of course, I know this. My machine's been restarted approximately 40 times
since identd was enabled in /etc/inetd.conf...so that's not the problem at
all...

Thanks,

otaku@hick.com

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Steve Carlson wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 1997, Josh Hope wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of identd, I uncommented the line in /etc/inetd.conf...but it has
> > never worked for me. I've gone through a few third party identd packages,
> > but nothing seems to work for me. 
> > 
> > I'm using NetBSD 1.2.1...could it be a bad identd? I'd really like to get
> > identd up...
> 
> You do of course need to send inetd a `/bin/kill -HUP` signal to have it
> re-read inetd.conf.  Or restart inetd.  I vaguely remember having problems
> with identd a few months ago so it it possible you just have a bad copy.
> Pidentd is an identd server that should work with NetBSD.  I think it has
> a program that will test an identd server too.
> 
> --
> Steve Carlson
> stevec@accessone.com
> 
>