From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 4: 9:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mpp.pro-ns.net (pppdsle45.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.23.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B40214ECD for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:09:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.pro-ns.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA03678; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:09:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199909131109.GAA03678@mpp.pro-ns.net> Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! In-Reply-To: <37DCD849.8199113D@lomag.net> from Mark Skurzynski at "Sep 13, 1999 06:56:09 am" To: lomag@lomag.net (Mark Skurzynski) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:09:48 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Greg.Quinlan@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk (Greg Quinlan), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Greg Quinlan wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Steve O'Hara-Smith > > > > > 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