filter syslog inetd messages

[Xavier Bibian Ingles]

hello,

I have a lot of messages in syslog like these:

inetd[4285]: hacl-cfg/tcp: Connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) at Tue
inetd[4286]: ident/tcp: Connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) at inetd[4287]: ident/tcp: Connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) at ..............

My syslog file is growing a lot.
I want to have inetd messages but not these.
How can I disable only these messages?

Thank you

[Michael Steele_2]

Toggle inetd with -l option to enable/disable conneciton logging.

# inetd -l

[DCE · Accepted solution]

You can also customize syslogd output to route the messages to a seperate log file - see man syslogd

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I rather doubt you need the ident service at all. I would comment that line out in /etc/inetd.conf and issue an inetd -c command.

[Stephen Doud]

As of October 2004, patches for supported versions of Serviceguard include a dependency on identd. HP does not recommend disabling the identd service in /etc/inetd.conf because Serviceguard will be looking to it to validate the server requesting the execution of a Serviceguard command.
HP also does not recommend perpetual disablement of identd via the cmclconfd line in /etc/inetd.conf to avoid incorporating the increased security.