On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 indira@dividere.net wrote:

> I have used ytalk on my box for a few months.
> When I tried to use it today, I get this error message
>      ######################################################
>                     #                    Ytalk Error                     #
>                     #                                                    #
>                     #  No talk daemon on kalima.theundergroundcity.com   #
>                     #             No such file or directory              #
>                     #                                                    #
>                     #      Warning: cannot write to old talk daemon      #
>                     #                    Host is down                    #
>                     #                                                    #
>                     #      Warning: cannot write to new talk daemon      #
>                     #                    Host is down                    #
>                     #                                                    #
>                     #      Warning: cannot write to old talk daemon      #
>                     #                    Host is down                    #
>                     ######################################################


Make sure it is listening. Like use "netstat -an | grep 518".

> when I try to use talk locally, i get this message
> [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)]

A message in the archives said that a user had this problem when 127.0.0.1
was not defined as localhost in /etc/hosts file.

> this is the version of ytalk: ytalk-3.1.1nb1
> I am running Netbsd 1.6.1 i386
> in inetd.conf, i have
> ntalk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody:tty      /usr/libexec/ntalkd     ntalkd

Also, check your logs for messages from inetd about ntalkd.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/