From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 15:34:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D02E16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41705.mail.yahoo.com (web41705.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6E543D1F for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timyp@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040527223409.86929.qmail@web41705.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [82.147.140.12] by web41705.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 May 2004 15:34:09 PDT Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:34:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "timyp@yahoo.com" To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: how to find and start talkd for use it with talk command ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:34:42 -0000 --- "timyp@yahoo.com" wrote: > hi! > > on free bsd 5.2 > > how can i find and start talkd for use it with talk > command ? > can i? > > or if i cant - can i use some similar instead ...? > > 10x in advance. > > regards! hi again! i solved my problem with google and some other unixes docs..aix at most talkd is started via inetd and executable is in /usr/libexec/in.ntalkd thus , #which talkd not give me the answer. other my mistake is that i read man talkd and there is an entry to mand with no one word for inetd or in.ntalkd or inetd.conf.... i suggest some small additions in man page: on bottom add related link to inetd and on top add "talkd (or ntalkd) can be started via /etc/inetd.conf and is located in /usr/libexec/in.ntalkd" or something like this....and man page will be more actual and usefull. sorry for inconvenience , regards! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/