Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:09:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> To: lomag@lomag.net (Mark Skurzynski) Cc: Greg.Quinlan@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (Greg Quinlan), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <199909131109.GAA03678@mpp.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <37DCD849.8199113D@lomag.net> from Mark Skurzynski at "Sep 13, 1999 06:56:09 am"
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> 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! > > You guys have talkd enabled in /etc/inetd.conf ? I saw a similar problem with ntalkd in -current 2 months or so ago. My friend and I both tried being the originator of the talk request and it sat around "waiting for invitation...". We got the timing down right twice and we got connected, but 98% of the time it did the "waiting for..." junk. I had forgotten about it until now. His talk client and daemon were on a BSDI machine, if I remember right. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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