Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes: > syslog reports: > error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199