Josh Hope
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 01:09:39 -0400 (EDT), Joshua E Hope wrote:
> > As long back as I can remember, identd has never worked quite right with
> > NetBSD/mac68k. I know it doesn't work real well with IRC servers and all,
> > because whenever I try connecting to a server identd will do nothing.
> 
> This is strange.  It always works for me, even when I connect to one
> of the freaking a**l-r****tive EFNet IRC servers.  My /etc/inetd.conf:
> 
> ident		stream	tcp	wait	nobody.kmem /usr/libexec/identd	identd -w -t60 -l -e -N
> 
> Every time I connect to irc.ais.net or something, the server tells me
> "Got ident", and I can see identd running with ps.
> 
> What was your previous setting in /etc/inetd.conf?  There used to be
> identd "-O" option in /etc/inetd, which caused identd to return
> "OTHER" as operating system type which in turn caused EFNet IRC
> servers to reject you.  Maybe you still have that option in your
> /etc/inetd.conf?

The exact line from /etc/inetd.conf:

#ident          stream  tcp     wait    nobody.kmem /usr/libexec/identd identd -w -t60 -l -o -e -N

I notice that this does differ from yours with the -o option, and you
could've mistaked the -o for -O. Upon removing -o, however, identd does
work :)

> 
> > On an aside, and unrelated note, Apache still is not functioning (won't
> > work either as a normal daemon or when called via inetd)...no replies to
> > my previous post on this topic :)
> 
> Well, "doesn't work" isn't enough for any of us mere mortals to debug
> remotely...

Well, yes I am sorry. There isn't much else to add to this problem,
however. When I run apache from inetd and attempt to access the site via
lynx I get the error "Network read error". Whenever I run apache via the
command line, it just doesn't work. It quits immediately after running it.
It won't show up on a ps listing...for those that will suggest it, yes I
set the type in httpd.conf to standalone when as a standalone, and inetd
when as inetd...

> Ken

Thanks for the help Ken :)