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Re: [TCLUG:14910] system log question



Scott Dier - dieman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Peter Lukas wrote:
> 
> > inetd.conf, you'll prevent other sites from identifying you whenever you
> > connect (probably a good idea if you hit a lot of untrusted sites).
> 
> Probally a bad idea if you want to use any IRC servers.

True, of course, in.identd isn't getting executed on his box to begin
with, so he probably won't see any difference.  (Though finding a copy
of the ident daemon and pointing /etc/inetd.conf to it may improve
certain things, like allow you to connect to more IRC servers)
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