i had to to the same to get identd working ..not sure why .. let me know what u find out if its not posted to the list
nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Brian White wrote: bcwhit >I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every bcwhit >connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say "root.root" bcwhit >instead of "telnetd.telnetd". bcwhit > bcwhit >The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group. bcwhit >Is there something else that needs to be set? There doesn't seem to be bcwhit >any mention of this in the telnetd manpage, nor is there any other bcwhit >documentation. bcwhit > bcwhit >Any ideas? Thanks! bcwhit > bcwhit > Brian bcwhit > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) bcwhit > bcwhit >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bcwhit > Friends are relatives that you make for yourself. bcwhit > bcwhit > bcwhit >-- bcwhit >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null bcwhit > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:32pm up 97 days, 2:10, 2 users, load average: 1.77, 1.67, 1.63