I have a strange behaviour of talk since this afternoon. When a user try 
to talk to a person he gets,
"Checking for invitation on caller's machine" responce, and waits forever !
There ara many strange talk deamons  as seen above. But ntalkd is 
executed by inetd. I try to kill this talk deamons but no, they can't be 
killed. Do you have any idea ?
Sincrely.
murat.
/usr/users/staff/balci>ps -ef | grep talk
root      4170     1  0.0 15:06:16 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      4278     1  0.0 15:22:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      4548     1  0.0 15:24:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      5055     1  0.0 15:25:45 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      5749     1  0.0 15:14:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      5799     1  0.0 15:29:45 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      5847     1  0.0 15:08:16 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      5933     1  0.0 15:18:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      6208     1  0.0 15:12:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      6226     1  0.0 15:04:16 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      6302     1  0.0 15:10:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      6538     1  0.0 15:16:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root      6787     1  0.0 15:27:45 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
root     30753     1  0.0 15:20:17 ??           0:00.00 ntalkd
balci     9311  8767  0.0 19:29:03 ttyp3        0:00.01 grep talk
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Murat Balci	UNIX sys. Admin	
s-mail : Ege Universitesi B.A.U.M - Bornova, IZMIR, TURKIYE.
e-mail : balci_at_baum01.ege.edu.tr	Phone :+(90)(232)3881080-253
Received on Fri Sep 15 1995 - 19:14:37 NZST