There ought to be a way to get the ipop3d deamon to log the user.
The man page seems really sparse.  There must be more doc somewhere.

On 2002.06.06 07:57 Paul Dubinsky wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> I checked for ident but it wasn't running so then I started looking for 
> something that was trying to use ident. I found that the new ipop3 
> service (in /etc/xinetd.d) was configured to with the following:
> 
> service pop3
> {
>         disable = no
>         socket_type             = stream
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
>         log_on_success          += USERID
>         log_on_failure          += USERID
> }
> 
> After looking through the man for xinetd.conf, I changed it to:
> 
> service pop3
> {
>         disable = no
>         socket_type             = stream
>         wait                    = no
>         user                    = root
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/ipop3d
>         log_on_success          += HOST DURATION
>         log_on_failure          += HOST
> }
> 
> The difference is in the log_on_success and log_on_failure variables. If 
> set to USERID, the service calls ident before logging to the logfile. If 
> set to HOST, it only logs without the lookup.
> 
> An added benefit: this is true with any of the xinetd services, ie. ftp, 
> map, etc.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Paul Dubinsky
> flxent.com
> 
> ps. I tried to put this up on the redhat list but the msgs seem to have 
> gone missing. Ashcroft and Carnivore?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:21 PM 6/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> On 2002.06.05 07:24 Paul Dubinsky wrote:
>>> I have just upgraded a server from Caldera 2.4 to RedHat 7.3 and I'm 
>>> now having long delays when accessing the RH7.3's ipop3 server. The 
>>> hosts file is unchanged and I think the search order is still Hosts, 
>>> DNS
>>> Does anyone know why this is happeneing?
>> 
>> It could be the ident service timing out.  I forget the gory details.
>> I remember always having problems with ftp and ident.
>> I always turn ident off and get rid of it.  Maybe look also in
>> /etc/hosts.allow.  It could also be trying to do reverse dns somewhere
>> and you haven't configured that correctly.
>> 
>> Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
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