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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:06:31 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Greg Quinlan <Greg.Quinlan@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "talk" appears broken!
Message-ID:  <19990913140631.B64305@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <009a01befdd5$d59dc2e0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>; from Greg Quinlan on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:50:46AM %2B0100
References:  <XFMail.990913112626.steveo@iol.ie> <009a01befdd5$d59dc2e0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>

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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Greg Quinlan wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@iol.ie>
> 
> > On 13-Sep-99 Greg Quinlan wrote:
> > > The split screen program "talk" seems to not work anymore for 3.3-RC
> > > 
> > > (mesg y)
> > 
> >         Fails for me (3.3RC cvsupped last thursday), all I get is the
> > checking for invitation message repeated endlessly (talk to local user).
> > 
> 
> Yep! That's extactly what I get. (cvsup last friday)
> So it is broken!
> 
> Greg

Make sure that `ntalk' line is present and uncommented in your /etc/inetd.conf:

ntalk	dgram	udp	wait	tty:tty	/usr/libexec/ntalkd	ntalkd


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