On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 09:30 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > One of the first things that I always shut off, since the days of > RH5, was the ident daemon and later on the port itself. I don't care > to use it, I've never had problems not running it and I don't see any > reason why I should either. I don't think this would be a problem > either, but then maybe you'll prove me wrong. I recall reading about people having problems with their own ISPs if they ignored it (e.g. getting their mail), and it can certainly cause problems with logging onto some IRC services. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.