Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 09:54:35 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Wayne Barnes <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>, rbeyer@lpl.arizona.edu Subject: Re: talkd under FreeBSD4.5 Message-ID: <20020218095435.J48401@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020218101237.L69356-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>; from jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu on Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:24:45AM -0700 References: <20020218101237.L69356-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Jason Barnes wrote:
>
> I recently cvsupped to 4.5-RELEASE, and since I made world the
> talk daemon (ntalkd) no longer seems to function. I run, as root:
>
> /usr/libexec/ntalkd
>
> and then in /var/log/messages appears:
>
> Feb 18 10:10:58 c3po talkd[69344]: recv: Socket operation on non-socket
> Feb 18 10:11:18 c3po last message repeated 83678 times
>
> When I killed inetd and restarted it, I get this error when I try to
> initiate a talk session:
>
> #############################################
> # Ytalk Error #
> # #
> # No talk daemon on c3po.lpl.arizona.edu #
> # #
> #############################################
>
> I checked and verified that talkd was indeed specifically mentioned in
> inetd.conf:
>
> ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to how to resuscitate the talk daemon?
> Thanks!
You don't need to/shouldn't run talkd(8) as root. What does,
$ netstat -an -p udp
Show when inetd(8) is supposed to be listening for talk(1)
connections?
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