>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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