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- This is talkanswer 1.0, an answering machine for BSD talk. Once you've
- installed it, if anyone talks to a user not logged on to your machine,
- talkanswer will answer instead and send the message through normal mail.
- All the work is done by a shell script that you can easily customize.
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- Don't try to install talkanswer unless you have the new talk. To see if
- you have new talk, check for a line containing 518 in /etc/services.
-
- You need the pty program and setuid utility. pty is available upon
- request to brnstnd@nyu.edu or via anonymous ftp to 128.122.128.22.
- setuid is included in the authutil package, which is available from
- uunet.uu.net:/comp.sources.unix/volume22/auth-utils/part*.
-
- You need the talkd source to set up talkanswer. If you don't have the
- source, get it from uunet.uu.net:/bsd-sources/src/network/talkd.tar.Z.
- Apply the patch in talkdiff and recompile.
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- Once you've successfully compiled talkd, hide /etc/ntalkd in a safe
- place and put the new talkd there.
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- Finally, put talkanswer into a path that's in inetd's environment. If
- you want, change the talkanswer pathname in announce.c for this.
-
- Send comments or complaints to me, Dan Bernstein, at brnstnd@nyu.edu.
- This is version 1.0, 9/14/90.
-