From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 10:23: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E2E15388 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:22:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13963; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:22:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:22:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Greg Quinlan Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! In-Reply-To: <028901befe07$adc445a0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Yes! (sendmail, telnet, ftp, pop3.....) > > I have just tried it on a 3.2S box I have here ... that is... two local > users trying to talk and it doesn't work either. quick question (referencing from an email I already deleted) Do you have a user and group tty? I had this problem once and I hadn't merged /etc/passwd with /usr/src/etc/passwd (this machine had been upgraded from 2.1.7 to 3.2 over the years) and I didn't have a user tty so talk was failing. Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message