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Re: talk facility

To: Daniel Omondi Otieno <omondi at arcc.or.ke>
Subject: Re: talk facility
From: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:37:58 +0100
Cc: ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug, afnog at afnog.org
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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 12:41:40PM +0300, Daniel Omondi Otieno wrote:
> I'm trying to talk a local user on the same machine.

Maybe the recipient is not accepting messages. Try 'mesg y' on the receiving
side.

I am not familiar with BSD/OS, but is there a talkd/ntalkd in
/etc/inetd.conf? Has it been enabled?

B.

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