From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 16:48:34 2005 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 0856316A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:48:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.dti.supsi.ch (mail.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.153.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E1D43D54 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:48:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch) Received: from [193.5.152.27] (pcm2027.dti.supsi.ch [193.5.152.27]) by mail.dti.supsi.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1HGmF012173; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:48:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4214CABE.1010406@supsi.ch> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:47:58 +0100 From: Roberto Nunnari User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruben de Groot References: <000601c514b7$038166f0$9359fea9@yourd137mzmhow> <20050217144729.GA53145@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050217144729.GA53145@ei.bzerk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: monchis Subject: Re: talk command help 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, 17 Feb 2005 16:48:34 -0000 Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:07:43PM -0800, monchis typed: > >>I Am new to unix so I am learning how to use it, but i want to know how to talk to someone. I already used the man pages but i just don't get it. can you show me an example of how to talk to someone hat is logged in. thanks > > > You'll have to enable the talk daemon in /etc/inetd.conf like so: > > $ grep ntalk /etc/inetd.conf > # ntalk is required for the 'talk' utility to work correctly > ntalk dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd > $ Then, # /etc/rc.d/inetd restart and you're ready to use the talk utility. enable inetd in /etc/rc.conf with the line: inetd_enable="YES" so that upon every reboot inetd will be run. Best regards. > > Ruben > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana Dipartimento Tecnologie Innovative http://www.dti.supsi.ch SUPSI-DTI Via Cantonale tel: +41-91-6108561 6928 Manno """ fax: +41-91-6108570 Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo========================