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Annotation of 43BSD/old/talk/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: Talk consists of two parts:
        !             2: 
        !             3:     talk itself, which is the user interface. Talk initiates the
        !             4:         talk requests and negotiates with the suitable talk daemons.
        !             5: 
        !             6:     talkd, the talk daemon. Talkd announces an invitation to talk
        !             7:         to a user on its' local machine and acts like a rendezvous
        !             8:         point for inter-machine talks. The socket address's of
        !             9:         the invitING talk process is kept at the local talkd of
        !            10:         the invitEE. Talkd must run as root, and should be forked
        !            11:         off on boot along with the other daemons. There is
        !            12:         no provision for automatic restart of talkd. If for
        !            13:         some reason it dies, it must be restarted by hand. Since
        !            14:         talkd opens a special addresses socket (517 at the present 
        !            15:         time), the first talkd to run will lock out any other
        !            16:         talkd. The locked out talkd will sit and bitch every
        !            17:         15 seconds for about five minutes, so don't leave it running.
        !            18: 
        !            19: 
        !            20: So, to install:
        !            21: 
        !            22:        run 'make install' from the top of the talk source directory.
        !            23:        The install will fail if an older version of talkd is still
        !            24:        running. If it does fail because of a 'text file busy' error,
        !            25:        kill the old talkd and 'make install' again.
        !            26: 
        !            27:        execute '/usr/lib/talkd' to start the daemon immediately.
        !            28: 
        !            29:        Install a line in /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local to fork talkd off in
        !            30:        background on reboot. 
        !            31: 
        !            32:        Try talk. If it immediately fails with 'Bad system call', then
        !            33:        you should recompile ctl.c with the -DGETSOCK flag and remake
        !            34:        talk. This makes talk use getsockname (actually syscall(150))
        !            35:        instead socketaddr(). This will go away once 4.1c stabilizes.

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