SYSLOG Message: ident/tcp: bind: Address already in use

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Try inetd -k and wiat for sometime
Check still you get that error in syslog
if not then run inetd -c

-USA..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Robert,

Take a look at the thread below,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1b9dc2d01b525ca144/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000015247914

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Robert Hoey]

Still no good.

I followed http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1b9dc2d01b525ca144/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000015247914 and am still having the messages appear in syslog.

I did a inetd -k then a reboot and still get the messages.

I downloaded lsof and used the following command to check what is using port 113.
#lsof -i @vad390@hn.va.nec.com:113
which returned nothing.

Any more suggestions.

Thanks.
-Rob

[Robert Hoey]

Ok. I read the "ARPA: Misconfigured etc/inetd.conf file" document as:
if you have the "auth" line, then you need to have the "ident" line.

I commented out the auth line and there are no more ident/tcp syslog messages.

What is "auth" and what is "ident"? Do you need both?

Thanks again.
-Rob