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From: james@azrael.demon.co.uk (james r grinter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ytalk
Date: 11 Feb 1994 22:09:46 GMT
Organization: Blodwen's home for the trivially insane
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In-reply-to: Timothy J Kniveton's message of Thu, 10 Feb 1994 19:05:32 -0500

In article <EhKgjA200iM880f3ZD@andrew.cmu.edu> Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes:
   storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
   > Timothy J Kniveton  <tim+@CMU.EDU> wrote:
   > >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.
   >         you probably need some sort of ytalkd, and then you need to make

   good guess.  but supposedly, ytalk is supposed to work with the talk
   daemon that's already in place -- there is no ytalk daemon (yet)...

There is a ytalkd, but it should work with talkd anyway. There isn't a
Sun involved in the loop somewhere is there? The talk they ship is
notorious for not working with others (4.2BSD talk I believe)

Check also that you have a suitable entry in /etc/services for the
talk port (ie whatever the ytalk docs say they require), and that your
talkd line is uncommented.. It looks like the one on netbsd is
/usr/libexec/ntalkd, service ntalk, port 518.

James.