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Re: [bug-inetutils] talkd and ACL
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: [bug-inetutils] talkd and ACL |
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Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:51:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Thanks! Having this confirmation that it works now is useful.
/Simon