Topic: Identd server problem...

[NiXOBeee]

Well, I guess I need some serious advice here.

-When I first installed the SME 5.1.2, I ran into trouble with the pidentd server. I followed many roads to fix things up, and finally got the thing to work (IRC connection with ident support)
-Things ran pretty smoothly for 2 weeks but then, my server suffered a reboot, and since then I have no ident working anymore.

So my questions will be quite simple for the gurus out there :
-How to check if the service is running correctly ?
-How to check if the server is handling the external and internal connections on port 113 correctly ? (everything seems to be ok in the masq file)
-How to fix things up :/

No to mention I searched the forums and the net extensively.

Note : I installed tck, eggdrops and such on my box.
Note2 : I fixed the comments problem in the identd.masq template some times ago.
Note3 : I even don't have any message in the messages log files when requesting an ident connection, and that made me wonder if the service was working at all.

The thing is that I can't even Telnet my localhost on port 113 anymore (telnet is allowed however) as pointed in the pidentd docs... aaargh, heeeelp.

I won't spit on precise commands either since I'm no linux guru, or even urls where to find a howto or something... I would really like to UNDERSTAND what's going on with that ident thing...

Thanx in advance.

[sabu]

just noticed this:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=14673.msg56156#msg56156

sabu

[NiXOBeee]

Well, I already fixed that two weeks ago, so I guess it's not the problem I'm running in... but thanks for pointing...

[NiXOBeee]

OK. Silly thing, after checking so much things, I launched manually the identd service with :

# in.identd -l -e -q

And then it started to work again.

Why isnt the service launching itself the right way ? huuu, i don't know...

[Charlie Brady]

NiXOBeee wrote:
 
> OK. Silly thing, after checking so much things, I launched
> manually the identd service with :
>
> # in.identd -l -e -q
>
> And then it started to work again.
>
> Why isnt the service launching itself the right way ? huuu, i
> don't know...

In the standard product identd is lauched from xinetd so doesn't need to be (and can't be) started as a standalone daemon. Search for identd in your /etc/xinetd.conf file to try to determine why it isn't running from xinetd in your system.

Charlie