From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 18:08:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA11963 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:08:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA11958 Sun, 24 Mar 1996 18:08:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA27347; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:08:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:08:37 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch to talkd In-Reply-To: <699.827704223@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Or do something like I've done for ages. From my .cshrc: > alias startx "mesg n ; \startx ; mesg y" My .cshrc is smart enough to know where and when to turn on mesg. It turns it off on sessions that run on the front end boxes (keeps lusers from being a bother) and turns it on on sessions that are on other boxes that aren't molested by end users. :) > Problem solved :) Yep, I think this patch is pretty slick. Someone I talked to said they had written an ntalkd that read a .talkdrc in the homedir of the recipient. This would allow all sorts of nifty things. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|