Re: [bug-inetutils] talkd and ACL

[Mats Erik Andersson]

måndag den 10 september 2012 klockan 09:36 skrev Simon Josefsson detta:
> Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have taken the liberty to update talkd with ACL capacity,
> > building on ground work lying in fallow since years back.
> 
> Btw, regarding talk(d), are you able to get it to work?  I recall
> setting up InetUtils talk a few years ago but there were some terminal
> issue getting it to work.  Perhaps this has been resolved, but some
> positive confirmation that talk(d) is now in working stage would be good.

Yes, after the latest portability fix in 43b1d3 (our source) and
commit 8a8ef5 in Gnulib, I am successfully using Debian testing
at one end and FreeBSD 8.2 at the other end. Both patches are
needed to get the executables to work on FreeBSD. The readutmp
module of Gnulib has never been functional in either of FreeBSD
and OpenBSD, but now it is, except that FreeBSD 9.0 introduced
their own interpretation of utmpx, so the module is still broken
from 9.0 and onwards, but for an unrelated reason.

Regards,
  Mats