debian man page for talkd

TALKD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  TALKD(8)

NAME
     talkd -- remote user communication server

SYNOPSIS
     talkd

DESCRIPTION
     Talkd is the server that notifies a user that someone else wants to initiate a conversation.  It acts as a repository of invitations,
     responding to requests by clients wishing to rendezvous to hold a conversation.  In normal operation, a client, the caller, initiates a ren-
     dezvous by sending a CTL_MSG to the server of type LOOK_UP (see <protocols/talkd.h>).  This causes the server to search its invitation tables
     to check if an invitation currently exists for the caller (to speak to the callee specified in the message).  If the lookup fails, the caller
     then sends an ANNOUNCE message causing the server to broadcast an announcement on the callee's login ports requesting contact.  When the
     callee responds, the local server uses the recorded invitation to respond with the appropriate rendezvous address and the caller and callee
     client programs establish a stream connection through which the conversation takes place.

SEE ALSO
     talk(1), write(1)

HISTORY
     The talkd command appeared in 4.3BSD.

4.3 Berkeley Distribution					 December 11, 1993					 4.3 Berkeley Distribution