From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 14:34:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA27307 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:34:29 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it (root@[194.179.130.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA27259 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:33:32 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00499; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 23:24:20 +0200 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199509132124.XAA00499@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: 'talk' doesn't work! Did it ever? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 23:24:20 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers' List) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 13, 95 01:52:26 pm Reply-To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 984 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Jake Hamby (Wed Sep 13 22:52:26 1995): > Yeah, I was trying to talk to a SunOS box (and a Solaris box) as test > cases. The problem is that there is an ntalk daemon in /etc/inetd.conf ... > Oh, and sorry for posting to hackers when I should've posted to > questions... But, since the FreeBSD->Sun compatibility problem hasn't > been solved yet, perhaps this is a -hackers problem after all! Sorry. I didn't mean to bite. What I understood from your original message was that talk didn't work for you, *ever*. This has been asked many times in the past, and solved by proper network configuration. That's why I wrote it belonged to -questions. If the problem (as is) is a compatibility issue, yes, that's for hackers. Have a nice day, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY