[KLUG Members] Talk

[Jeremy Leonard]

It runs through xinetd.

Everything else you were saying is over my head.

 
> > 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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