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Subject: odd talk problem
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:28:04 +0000
From: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net>
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hi,
i'm having the strangest problem with talk.  when i do a "talk <user>" on
my freebsd 4.2 box, the recipient never sees a talk request from the talk
daemon.  messages are turned on because i can do a write just fine.

damon@chiba ~> uname -a
FreeBSD chiba.3jane.net 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 10
00:21:11 GMT 2000     root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/chiba  i386

damon@chiba ~> grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
ntalk   dgram   udp     wait    tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd     ntalkd

when i do a talk all i get are repeated messages that say this:

[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

but the term of the user i'm trying to talk doesn't recieve a talk request.

i can provide a copy of my kernel config if that'll help.

any clues are greatly appreciated.

damon


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