From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 25 09:30:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA14723 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA14714 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12220; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:22:00 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603251722.KAA12220@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Patch to talkd To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:22:00 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Mar 24, 96 10:43:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >The "type w and specify a tty" soloution only works if the user is local > >and or if finger (better than w for this) is enabled. > > You can explicitly request a remote tty name when you are using ytalk > (which is in ports somewhere) The reason it only works locally is that you can't identify the tty the person is on most of the time when you are not a local user as well. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.