Problem with Ident and Xinetd

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This might be stupid but its the first time ive used xinetd. I want ident to run so I created /etc/xinetd.d/auth

service auth
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = nobody
server_args = /usr/sbin/in.identd
}

However when I restarted xinet.d it say only one service active (thats ftp) what have I done wrong?

Thanks in advance

[Lord Tocharian]

I am not that familiar with xinetd but from what I remember shouldn't that be

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Im no totally sure what the options would be I found them for inetd and tried (not very well) adapt them to xinetd.

[Lord Tocharian]

Just to make sure that something is actually wrong, if xinetd is working properly with identd it will not show it running right away (won't be active right away). You need to actually attempt to use identd (with an irc client or something) in order for xinetd to activate identd on request. One other way I can think of to check if it is running is to use netstat to see if identd is listening on port 113.

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I realise xinetd will not start ident until there is a request however when a request comes in ident dosnt get started.
Currently I am running ident in deamon mode but I would much rather xinetd runs the show.

Thanks

John