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hi group
for some reason (probably after a buildworld) my talk utility stopped
working. I thought initially it might have been due to inetd.conf being
overwritten but this is not the case:

[snip]
# ntalk is required for the 'talk' utility to work correctly
ntalk dgram udp wait tty:tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd
[snip]

ntalkd is there:

-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11604 Sep 8 09:48
/usr/libexec/ntalkd

yet when i run talkd username I get:

[No connection yet]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

(ad nauseam)

even though the other user has msg y set

can anyone help?

cheers

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In article , John wrote:
> hi group
> for some reason (probably after a buildworld) my talk utility stopped
> working. I thought initially it might have been due to inetd.conf being
> overwritten but this is not the case:

Is inetd running?

Kris