On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Reinoud Koornstra wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I tried to talk to other users, but it seems impossible.
> When i try to talk as root, it just waits for a connection.
> When i try to talk as user to another user i see this:
> 
> talk: ntalk/udp: service is not registered.
> 
> However, man talk or man ntalk dont help in this and man ntalk doesnt
> exist. Do i have to start a daemon first or what should i do?

I suppose you have to add or uncomment a line like 

ntalk    dgram   udp     wait    nobody.tty /usr/libexec/ntalkd    ntalkd

in your /etc/inetd.conf, and send inetd a SIGHUP to reread the file. 

Regards

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 Audun Nordal