the only main difference between me and you is this

NetBSD mariah.bo.infn.it 1.5_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Thu Jun
22 13:59:59 PDT 2000     matt@cheetah.local:/other/kobj/vax/GENERIC vax

and since this happens to me also when I use the write command and not
only talk I Start thinking it is a problem of the kernel...
waht do u think ???

Rick


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, A. Wik wrote:

> > 
> > Every user is notifyed as root by the talk daemon and by the write
> > application.
> > 
> > mariah [7:08pm]{test}[~]> whoami
> > test
> > 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 ?
> 
> No... It works fine for me.  Have a look at the
> following information, compare and see if you
> can find any significant differences:
> 
> mariah# finger
> Login    Name                 Tty  Idle  Login Time   Office     Office Phone
> root     Charlie Root         *co    10  Tue 21:49
> test     Charlie Test          p0     1  Tue 22:09
> toor     Bourne-again Superus  p1     -  Tue 22:10
> mariah#
> 
> Message from Talk_Daemon@mariah at 22:13 ...
> talk: connection requested by test@mariah.
> talk: respond with:  talk test@mariah
> 
> 
> mariah# ls -l /usr/libexec/*talk* /usr/bin/*talk*
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20480 Nov 16  1999 /usr/bin/talk
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Nov 16  1999 /usr/libexec/ntalkd
> mariah# grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
> ntalk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody:tty      /usr/libexec/ntalkd
> ntalkd
> mariah# uname -a
> NetBSD mariah 1.4X NetBSD 1.4X (AWAX) #1: Sat May  6 11:25:13 GMT 2000     toor@
> mariah:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/AWAX vax
> mariah#
> 
>