Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:22:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Greg Quinlan <Greg.Quinlan@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909131320420.13767-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <028901befe07$adc445a0$5214010a@swlct.sthames.nhs.uk>
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Hi, On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > Yes! (sendmail, telnet, ftp, pop3.....) > > I have just tried it on a 3.2S box I have here ... that is... two local > users trying to talk and it doesn't work either. quick question (referencing from an email I already deleted) Do you have a user and group tty? I had this problem once and I hadn't merged /etc/passwd with /usr/src/etc/passwd (this machine had been upgraded from 2.1.7 to 3.2 over the years) and I didn't have a user tty so talk was failing. Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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