Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: talkd intercept Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980414235007.4383N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980414204245.32525A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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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
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