Geoffrey,

Have you tried this:

1. Download the pidentd rpm from www.rpmfind.net
2. Install rpm
3. Poke a hole in your firewall/router for identd (port 112-114)
4. Connect onto DullNet.

HTH,
Jonathan

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 21:05, Geoffrey Lane wrote:
> I keep getting problems with identd.... I'm trying to connect via xchat to 
> dalnet...
> First my sys conf:
> Redhat 7.3
> Xchat 1.8.10
> (Behind linksys router)
> 
> 
> I was getting errors with identd, so I decided to install identd for linux 
> from http://www.fukt.bth.se/~per/identd/   Which I previously asked the list 
> a few days earlier about an error was
> 
> [root@Downstairs linux-identd-1.2]# make
> gcc -DVERSION=\"1.2\" -Wall -pedantic -O2    -c -o identd.o identd.c
> identd.c: In function `lookup_uid':
> identd.c:132: warning: int format, uid_t arg (arg 7)
> identd.c: In function `compose_response':
> identd.c:155: warning: `pwd' might be used uninitialized in this function
> gcc  identd.o -o identd
> sed -e "s/#VERSION#/1.2/" identd.8.in > identd.8
> [root@Downstairs linux-identd-1.2]# make install
> install -d /usr/sbin
> install -d /usr/man/man8
> install -m 0755 identd /usr/sbin/identd
> install -m 0644 identd.8 /usr/man/man8/identd.8
> ln -s identd /usr/sbin/in.identd
> ln: `/usr/sbin/in.identd': File exists
> make: *** [install] Error 1
> [root@Downstairs linux-identd-1.2]#
> 
> I checked kpackage and found an entry called pidentd and both programs use 
> /etc/identd.conf file.... Which I'm pretty sure is the cause of this 
> error.... Now the problem is. Are they conflicting or something? Can both be 
> uninstalled and then re-installed? Can this be fixed?
> 
> Can someone please help me with this? I know I'm an idiot but that's why I'm 
> asking the smart linux people what to do!!!
> 
> 
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