Syslog message

[Dan Walker]

Receiving every 10 minutes the following message in syslog.log
syslog: identd: remote owner request failed : no such file or directory

how do I correct this, Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

A remote inetd user is trying to access a file that does not exist.

inetd -l

That will enhance logging and maybe get you more detail.

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[Dan Walker]

I did that and see nothing happening yet also how do I turn it off once done.

[Michael Steele_2]

'inetd -l' is a toggle. Off on off on, etc.

[Dan Walker]

I went into /etc/inetd.conf and commented out the identd entry.

[Michael Steele_2]

Sorry, that's mistake. Just run it as "inetd"

[Steven E. Protter]

Add

set -x

To the .profile or script that starts things up on the server.

That will get you more diagnostics.

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