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- From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
- Subject: Re: ntalk problem on 827
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.171845.2997@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <Bt4tvE.12L@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:18:45 GMT
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- In article <Bt4tvE.12L@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rogers@eagle (Bill Rogers) writes:
- >
- >Hello, I grabbed ntalk from iowa and installed it on my 827/8.05 and all was
- >cool. Worked like a champ, UNTIL, the callee set mesg n.
-
- Ntalkd must be modified so that it picks only "active" entries
- from /etc/utmp; I have a version working, and I hope to put in
- back into the Iworks library before I go to Interworks this weekend
- (though that will be way too late to fix it for that conference).
- I don't know if that will help with your problem, but what was happening
- for us was that many (>100) talkd's would be "running" (doing nothing),
- and the process table would fill up eventually.
-
- I haven't tested my new one with 'mesg n' -- I'll try to do that too.
- --
- What are the chances that any computer system will ever "work" properly?
- ... and Slim just left town. -*- Mike Peterson, SysAdmin, U/Toronto Chemistry
-