After emerging net-misc/netkit-talk and rebooting, talk still doesn't work. The problem is that talkd doesn't start (from the command line nor inetd). Once talkd is started it exits immediately without a message (and is not running in the background). It turns out after playing with the code a little I found out that it's not able to grab a socket for some reason (it exits immediately after the main loop). There is an error message, but it never get's displayed probably because in the talkd code there is no flush() or even a "\n" after the error message. talk is a pretty basic utility that really should be fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge net-misc/netkit-talk 2. try to get it to work... (just try!) :-) This problem is reproducible on all my gentoo machines. FWIW... bach *ROOT* /root [72]>emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test3 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/scratch/tmp/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="apm foomaticdb mad gtkhtml berkdb tetex bonobo guile postgres esd x86 oss 3dnow alsa arts avi crypt cups dga dvd encode gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
This also happened back when I was running the gentoo-sources 2.4.20 kernel.
use xinetd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:518 0.0.0.0:*
