*** Sorry for this being so long, but I'm trying to be thorough ***
> yes most likely it will. depending on what was using ident, if it was
> another process, or if it was a hung socket in TIME_WAIT .. as another
> poster noted you may have 2 copies of ident trying to run. I reccomend
I just removed "gidentd" and replaced it with "ident2" doing this didn't
solve the problem, it just sort of changed the error a little. It did
make me notice something else. I do like ident2 as it will allow me to
change ident from my home directories instead of creating a new user just
to get a different ident.
1) Dec 2 23:33:47 dragon inetd[20855]: ident2/tcp: unknown service
2) Dec 2 23:37:15 dragon inetd[20861]: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
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1) I think I corrected it. I entered the new ident2 into the inetd.conf
incorrectly. Made that go away by correcting it.
2) I noticed something in "man ident2"
-p, --daemon-port
Daemon-only: Bind this port, instead of 'auth' aka 113
*** Back to my vague memory ***
I remember something during an update with dselect that said something about
changing auth/bind or some such. It said it was changing my "/etc/group"
*** End vague memory ***
Could this be the problem? Could it be trying to use auth, but that
update made it so auth is no longer called auth or something? *wish I
remembered exactly what the error was.
Or if I'm on a totally wrong track? Any ideas what to do. I use IRC a lot,
and some of the servers I connect to require ident to be running.
> dpkg -l | grep ident
>
> to see what packages are installed for ident, if there is more then
> one, remove one of them(sounds like the case), if theres only one,
> either prevent it from starting on boot(it should have an init script)
> or comment it out of inetd.conf
This is what is running now:
dragon:/etc# dpkg -l | grep ident
ii discover 1.5-1.4 hardware identification system
ii ident2 1.03-4 An advanced ident daemon
ii libdiscover1 1.5-1.4 hardware identification library
ii libident 0.22-2 simple RFC1413 client library - runtime
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A little more info just in case:
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Dec 2 22:11:31 dragon inetd[18456]: getpwnam: identd: No such user
Dec 2 22:11:31 dragon inetd[14887]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1
Dec 2 22:11:31 dragon inetd[18457]: getpwnam: identd: No such user
Dec 2 22:11:31 dragon inetd[14887]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1
the above 4 lines repeated alot only the [#####] changed, then it ended
with the below line.
Dec 2 22:11:31 dragon inetd[14887]: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
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this is the only error I'm getting at since I replaced "gidentd" with
"ident2" and after correcting the entry in "inetd.conf"
Dec 2 23:37:15 dragon inetd[20861]: auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
*** Final note ***
I am really tired right now, so I might have made this unneccessarily
long. But I'm pretty sure that the issue I'm having has to do with one
or all of the following:
inetd.conf (incorrect entry): ident stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/ident2 ident2 -i -n -o 60
-i = allow ~/.ident
-n = allow ~/.noident
-o = Clients timeout after this many seconds
ident2 (something to do with "auth")
bind (I don't have bind installed, but I do have bind9-host installed. I
DID about 2 weeks ago, install bind9, but it was removed less than an
hour after I installed it.)
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Michelle Alexia "Jade" Storm
Dragon Impersonating a Human and failing.
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