Information about the package, oidentd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The oidentd package is designed for, Implementation of the RFC1413 identification server.
Package Name:
oidentd
Summary:
Implementation of the RFC1413 identification server
Description:
The oidentd package contains identd, which implements the RFC1413 identification server. Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns either the user name or other information about the process that owns the connection. Install oidentd if you need to look up information about specific TCP/IP connections.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.8
Release:
8.el6
Size:
62 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the oidentd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install oidentd
This command will install oidentd on the server.
yum remove oidentd
This command will un-install oidentd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove oidentd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove oidentd
This command will un-install oidentd on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove oidentd when using the -y flag.
yum update oidentd
This command will update oidentd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove oidentd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update oidentd
This command will update oidentd to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove oidentd when using the -y flag.
yum info oidentd
This command will show you core information about the oidentd package.
yum deplist oidentd
This command will show you the dependencies for oidentd. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update oidentd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on oidentd. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.