Subject: Re: Problems with building identd
To: J. Benedict <raoul@olympus.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/02/1998 20:02:22
	As root 'hup inetd'.

		David/absolute

                      Neighbours should be one of:
                a) Understanding   b) Distant   c) Deaf

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, J. Benedict wrote:

> >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
> 
> I'll have a look at that.  I checked out the /etc/inet.conf file and the
> identd line was #ed out, so I removed that.  Can I restart inetd remotely-
> I'm telnetting into this box from home so I can't reboot or do anything
> that demands actual console input...
> 
> Jeff
> 
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> Jeffrey E. Benedict * raoul@olympus.net * 
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