From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 23:51:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16842 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA16721 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 06:51:21 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA04477; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" cc: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org, FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: talkd intercept In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > > > man mesg(1) > > I don't want to turn messages off, as in mesg n, I want to intercept the > talk request and display it nicely in a curses window. However, it > looks as though talkd just opens the terminal and writes to it. There > is no signalling involved. Is this the case, and if so, is there > another talkd I can use? > have fun hacking the daemon ... ;) I've been seriously tempted to rewrite ntalkd into a gentler, nicer daemon, but don't want to break all compatibility with every other UNIX on the planet. I'll agree that the current behavior is atrocious. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message