From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 14 17:45:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01318 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01175 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:44:51 GMT (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0ERF00P01JEP43@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:44:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:44:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: talkd intercept To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List 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 > 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? Joe Clarke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message