[plug] Problems with talk

[Ian Kent]

On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Greg Gamble wrote:

snip ...

>
>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.
>

Daemons configured in /etc/inetd.conf are started on request by the inetd
daemon process.

Look at the comments at the top of /etc/inetd.conf and inetd(8).