From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 13:58:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23405 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ikhala.tcimet.net (ikhala.tcimet.net [198.109.166.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23330 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 13:57:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dervish@ikhala.tcimet.net) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by ikhala.tcimet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03854; Mon, 4 May 1998 17:02:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dervish) From: bush doctor Message-Id: <199805042102.RAA03854@ikhala.tcimet.net> Subject: Re: Talk daemon In-Reply-To: from "Jon C. Smith" at "May 4, 98 02:09:24 pm" To: jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu (Jon C. Smith) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 17:02:49 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I enable a talk daemon so that talk and ytalk work? 1. Check /etc/inetd.conf for the line with talkd and uncomment if necessary 2. Restart inetd with a "kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`" 3. Read man pages on talk(1) and talkd(8) All should then be fine with the world ... =;-) > > j. > i'khala To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message