[wplug] talk and xinetd?

[Poyner, Brandon]

I'm not certain where it's documented, but there is the old school talk
and the successor ntalk (ncurses talk).  The old talk is very simple and
runs on a different port than ntalk.  When you install the talk client
on most any Linux system you're really installing ntalk, even though
they call it talk.    

$ strings /usr/bin/talk | grep ntalk
ntalk
$NetKit: netkit-ntalk-0.17 $
$ ldd /usr/bin/talk | grep libncurses
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x006c2000)

There may be some backwards compatibility in the ntalk client as certain
other operating systems (Solaris) still use old talk.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Kuczenski [mailto:brandon at 301south.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 1:27 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] talk and xinetd?


> I believe the Linux talk client prefers to use ntalk.  You should have
> an ntalk file in xinetd.d, enable that one as well.  
> 

That did it, thanks.

Where is that documented? any idea?

-Brandon



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