[plug] Problems with talk

[Christian]

At 19:22 24/10/98 +0800, you wrote:
>According to John Summerfield:
>Ah! ... yes, indeed I see that the daemon is in.talkd and it isn't
>running on my boss's machine and it is on mine. How is this normally
>initiated? A grep of /etc/rc.d/* didn't turn up anything.

root at earth:/etc# grep talk inetd.conf
# Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
talk    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.talkd
ntalk   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.talkd


Explore your inetd.conf file. :)

Regards,

Christian.