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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
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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
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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?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
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