I have just done a test right now
IT happens to me with every user.

Every user is notifyed as root by the talk daemon and by the write
application.

mariah [7:08pm]{test}[~]> whoami
test

mariah [7:08pm]{test}[~]> w
 7:08PM  up 1 day,  2:45, 6 users, load averages: 3.88, 3.95, 3.61
USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
rj45     p1 suncms:S.0        4:32PM  2:26 ../perl -I ../lib
test     p7 localhost         7:08PM     0 w 

talk rj45

and from rj45 I see...

Message from Talk_Daemon@mariah.bo.infn.it at 19:08 ...  
talk: connection requested by root@mariah.bo.infn.it.    
talk: respond with:  talk root@mariah.bo.infn.it         

this happpens with every user.

anyone knows why ?

THANKS alot

Rick


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:21:39PM +0200, nbsd@righi.dhs.org wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > there is a user on my system
> > 
> > davide:OzZ93HCSgdTY2:1005:100::0:0::/home/davide:/usr/local/bin/tcsh
> > 
> > 
> > when he is sending a talk to me or write to me on the terminal
> > I got always this warning.
> > 
> > Message from root@mariah.bo.infn.it on ttyp5 at 13:14 ...
> > 
> > or talk  from root@mariah.bo.infn.it
> > 
> > while the user is davide and not root.
> > 
> > how come this happens??
> 
> No idea. Hm... does this happen with other users, also?
> 
> 	-is
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