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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!news.cic.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: ytalk Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 19:05:32 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <EhKgjA200iM880f3ZD@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <IhKan5W00WB=92jvha@andrew.cmu.edu> <2je1gm$grj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: po6.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <2je1gm$grj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: > Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> wrote: > >i am trying to run ytalk on my FreeBSD box. i have version 3.0 with > >patch levels 1 & 2. everything compiles and runs fine, until i try > >and talk to someone. it then says it can't find a talk daemon on my > >machine, although there is one there: regular talk works fine. > > > >anyone have experience on this and know what my problem is, how to fix it? > > i don't know much about this, so i will guess: > > you probably need some sort of ytalkd, and then you need to make > /etc/inetd.conf point to this talkd instead of the regular talkd, > which won't understand ytalk protocol. good guess. but supposedly, ytalk is supposed to work with the talk daemon that's already in place -- there is no ytalk daemon (yet)...