On Dec 2,  7:38pm, J. Benedict wrote:
>
>I'm trying to build identd, a ident daemon which I need to use to use IRC
>servers.  The package name is called pidentd-2.6.1.tar.gz and I got it at
>ftp.eskimo.com/security/pidentd-2.6.1.tar.gz.

Why?  NetBSD comes with identd (in /usr/libexec, called via inetd).
If the IRC server is barfing on what identd returns, you might want
to remove the -o from the identd line in /etc/inetd.conf.

~Steve

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