[comp.unix.ultrix] "talk" under Ultrix 3.1

yhsieh@cadence.cadence.com (Tommy Hsieh) (03/09/90)

I have a question about talk program of DECStation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1. 
When I tried to used talk to talk to somebody on the same system I got an 
error message -- talk : ntalk/udp: service is not registered.

I checked the /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and they seem O.K. to me.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem ?  Thanks in advance !!  
The E-mail address is yhsieh@cadence.com 

The /etc/inetd.con contains these entries :

  talk	dgram	udp	wait	/etc/talkd	talkd
  ntalk	dgram	udp	wait	/usr/etc/ntalkd		ntalkd

The /etc/services contains these entries :

  talk		517/udp
  ntalk		518/udp

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grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (03/10/90)

>>>>> On 9 Mar 90 04:23:23 GMT, yhsieh@cadence.cadence.com (Tommy Hsieh) said:


TH> I have a question about talk program of DECStation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1. 
TH> When I tried to used talk to talk to somebody on the same system I got an 
TH> error message -- talk : ntalk/udp: service is not registered.
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I bet you're using Yellow Pages - if so, your YP master holds the
legit copy of /etc/services & your local copy isn't consulted.
Allegedly, in 4.0, this can be overridden.


Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)
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