Re: Mysterious log entries in /var/log/messages

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 04:16:32PM -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> I've begun to see meessages like the following in my /var/log/messages log:
> 
> Jul  1 16:13:42 CV150607-A inetd[431]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already
> in use
> 
> Does this mean someone is trying to log into my machine?  There is no
> record in /var/log/secure of a log in.  The who command shows noone
> logged in.

No it means you have two identd daemons trying to run on the same
port. Probably one starting via inetd, and one from init.d. RH6.2 has
changed the default from the former to the latter. 

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Hal B
hburgiss bellsouth net
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