Re: What's this mean?

                                                                    I see
that all the time.  Even the stock install of RH Linux does this.
It's the identd process.  I have not yet looked into it far enough to figure
out how to fix it, but I think it has something to do with the process
running as both a daemon and from inetd.conf.  Notice that it occurs exactly
every 10 minutes...

I could be way off on that, though.  It hasn't hurt anything, so I never
bothered with it.  I'll have to admit that the identd process is strange.
Look at all these processes:

nobody     335  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       339  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:31 identd -e -o
root       340  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       341  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       342  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       343  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       344  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       345  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       346  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       347  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o
root       348  0.0  0.2  1412  592 ?        S    Mar07   0:00 identd -e -o

One might wonder why the heck it needs to run so many.

John Romano


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Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:37 AM
Subject: What's this mean?


> Mar 26 23:59:21 rabbit inetd[17186]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
> Mar 27 00:09:21 rabbit inetd[17186]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
> Mar 27 00:19:21 rabbit inetd[17186]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
> Mar 27 00:29:21 rabbit inetd[17186]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in
use
>
>
> I presume it means inetd is complaining about trying to bind to an address
> multiple times. But where do I control that, and what else would already
be
> bound to that port/address?
>
> The box is a linux box with IP aliasing.
>
>
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