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Old 12-13-2003, 12:21 AM   #1
Druidboi
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Identd/IRC problem


Hi, I'm pretty new with linux so bare with me plz. I also searched this forum for related topics and noticed others have asked but nothing was really helpful to me. I'm trying to run BNC and connect from my windows box using mIRC but my host is nick!~user@hostname.com and i dont like that ~.

I'm running redhat 9 and I wanna get rid of the "~" for my ident on IRC. I checked if I have identd running and I do, pidentd. Also, I'm running xinetd, not inetd. The tutorials I found from google all deal with inetd and I don't have the "auth...etc" line which I'm supposed to uncomment so that doesn't help.

I did "/etc/rc.d/init.d/identd start" and got the "[ OK ]" and restarted xinetd but I still get the ~. I searched for previous related posts but nothing really showed me what to do at this point. I even installed ident2 but it didn't help either.

What do I do from here to get rid of that ~ and how? Plz Keep in mind I'm fairly new to linux so no big words please Any help or link to a tutorial would be appreciated, thanks!
 
Old 12-14-2003, 12:07 AM   #2
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Anyone able to help? no matter how many times i restart xinetd and run identd, ident still wont work
 
Old 12-14-2003, 03:42 AM   #3
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Try to put \ before ~. If it had any special meaning inside that context, it will be treated as a regular character after.

Also, check to see if your real problem isn't related to your firewall rules.

Good luck.
 
Old 12-14-2003, 03:45 AM   #4
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Sorry, I didn't read your whole post. Forget what I said.
 
  


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