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Date:      Sat, 04 Dec 1999 21:32:13 -0500
From:      John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
To:        "nat" <nat@unixlover.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: identd w/IRC...
Message-ID:  <4.1.19991204212802.0098e680@mail.udel.edu>
In-Reply-To: <001201bf3ec1$11a501a0$0300a8c0@orng1.occa.home.com>

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If your login shows the ~ before it on irc, then your identd is, in fact, not
working.  Make sure that:

1) You have pidentd installed from the ports

2) You have an identd line inside your /etc/inetd.conf that looks like:
ident   stream  tcp     wait    root /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120

3) That the above line, if it does appear in your inetd.conf shows the user as
"root" (like above) and not kmem:kmem, which will not work if you're running
3.x

4) That you have inetd enabled in your /etc/rc.conf via:
inetd_enable="YES"                      # Run the network daemon dispatcher (or
NO).
inetd_flags="-l"                        # Optional flags to inetd.

If you had to add the line mentioned in #2 above, you just need to kill -HUP
your inetd process and all should be well.

A friend of mine had problems with identd as well, but his problems went as far
as to the fact that his /etc/rc.conf was *completely* empty.  Hopefully you
don't have that problem :)

Good luck, and hope this helps,
John


>
> I am running identd but for some reason i cannot connect to DALnet
> on IRC w/cable. they say that i am not running identd.
>  
> i think the problem is that identd includes the ~ and Dalnet does not
> like that. how can i fix this?
>  
> thanx,
>  
> nat





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