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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ntalkd fail to run [socket problem?]
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Alexander-Jase Davidson wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have just installed a copy of 4.4-release and as I use talk, it reported
> "checking invitation on caller's machine". I have enabled ntalkd in
> inetd.conf and of course, enabled inetd as well. I login as root and run
> /usr/libexec/ntalkd and it reported something like "...socket on
> non-socket". Since I have done some modification to the system afterwards as
> an attempt to ressolve the problem, I messed up the machine and can not
> remember the exact report. But it is something to do with socket. What can I
> do?

If ntalkd is anything like talkd (?) then it needs to be run from inetd;
enable the line in /etc/inetd.conf for ntalkd.


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