Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 14:19:28 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Identd problems Message-ID: <1359.876259168@monkeys.com>
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Greeting again folks. I have one good question about inetd and who rather entirely simple question about installing optional packages on FreeBSD. Here's the story... I have just installed tcp_wrappers on a Linux system that I have on one machine on my local network and I was trying it out from the FreeBSD system on my network. I had enabled the option in tcp_wrappers that causes it to always try to get the identd info from the remote host. I also uncommented the `ident' line in the /etc/inetd.conf file on the FreeBSD system. Well, when I tried to rlogin from the FreeBSD system to the Linux system, the result was a veritable torrent of what I assume were syslog messages spewing out on the console. I finally had to reboot the FreeBSD box to make these stop. It seems that I failed to actually have the executable for the identd program installed on the FreeBSD box, and that's probably what caused this problem. But I don't understand why these messages seemed to just keep going and going. Shouldn't the inetd daemon just give up after a short while if it doesn't find the necessary executable to invoke? Separately, can someone please just tell me how one goes about installing optional packages (e.g. the identd package) on FreeBSD after you have done the basic OS install already? Sorry. I know this is a dumb question, but sadly, I only bought the FreeBSD CD-ROM and not the book, and I don't really feel like spending an hour or more trying to scrounge this one bit of info from the www.freebsd.org web site. (It seems like everyone uses different package install tools, and of course, everyone names them differently too. Even different flavors of Linux have different package installer tools! Grumble, grumble.) -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/
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