Re: portsentry and ffingerd problems.

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

Barrie Bremner wrote:
> 
>  Hullo again,

>  It all seems OK, except for the fact that I get this message in
> /var/log/messages every 10 minutes:
> 
>  Mar  5 18:46:02 shaitan inetd[13739]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already
> in use
> 
> this happens when I am both on- and off-line.

>  Cheers.
> 
>  Baz.

You probably have indentd running both stand-alone and through inetd.
Check /etc/rc.d/init.d/identd status (or your Linux flavor equivalent).

Comment out the line in /etc/inetd.conf that starts with 'auth' if the
last command says that identd is running.
(Or if you know portsentry runs its own identd)

Jules
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