IN.TALKD(8) Maintenance Commands and Procedures IN.TALKD(8)

in.talkd, talkd - server for talk program

in.talkd

talkd is a server used by the talk(1) program. It listens at the UDP port indicated in the ``talk'' service description; see services(5). The actual conversation takes place on a TCP connection that is established by negotiation between the two machines involved.

svcs(1), talk(1), services(5), attributes(7), smf(7), inetadm(8), inetd(8), svcadm(8)

The protocol is architecture dependent.

The in.talkd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(7), under the service identifier:


svc:/network/talk

Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(8). Responsibility for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(8). Use inetadm(8) to make configuration changes and to view configuration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

July 31, 2004 OmniOS