[KLUG Members] Talk

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:37:19AM -0400, Jeremy Leonard was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> I'm trying to use talk on a server I have wunning RH7.3
> When I try to start the talk server I get:
> 
> Socket operation on non-socket

In the purely technical sense, this sounds like the error you get when
you use socket operations on non-socket files.

See:

srwx------    1 www-data root            0 2003-05-21 16:50 gcache_port

This is a standard BSD network socket, only instead of being bound to an
IP address and a port #, it is bound to s special file on the UNIX
filesystem. The first are called Internet domain sockets, the latter
Unix domain sockets. They are almost identical, the main difference is
the namespace (IP addresses v. Unix filesystem).

How does the talk server run? Does it start in xinetd or a script in
/etc/init.d/?

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