On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Erwin S. Andreasen wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Michael Weiser wrote:
this is just a feature of inetd: it limits the forks of one service to 39! That's the reason for being able to steal a lot of resources only via ident, but NOT with the other services in inetd.conf. Why doesn't this affect in.identd?
|-inetd---in.identd---43*[in.identd]
in.identd is a "wait" tcp service, so once the first connection is received, inetd passes of the socket to the newly spawned in.identd and worries no more about it until in.identd returns.
Indeed, and if you want identd to behave like the other services (as ftp), then choose in /etc/inetd.conf: ident stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -i ^^ ^^ Peter -- ******************************************* URL: http://gmv.spm.univ-rennes1.fr/~peter/ *******************************************