talkd(8)

talkd8

Talk server

Usage

talkd [OPTION ...]

Overview

Talk daemon, using service `ntalk'.

-a, --acl=FILE

read site-wide ACLs from FILE

-d, --debug

enable debugging

-i, --idle-timeout=SECONDS set idle timeout value to SECONDS

-l, --logging

enable more syslog reporting

-r, --request-ttl=SECONDS

set request time-to-live value to SECONDS

-S, --strict-policy

apply strict ACL policy

-t, --timeout=SECONDS

set timeout value to SECONDS

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.0
  3. 3.1–8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11–12
  7. 13
  8. Arch

--acl since Debian 10 (Buster); --debug since Debian 10 (Buster); --help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; --logging since Debian 10 (Buster); --request-ttl since Debian 10 (Buster); --strict-policy since Debian 10 (Buster); --timeout since Debian 10 (Buster); --usage since Debian 10 (Buster); --version since Debian 10 (Buster); -? since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -S since Debian 10 (Buster); -V since Debian 10 (Buster); -a since Debian 10 (Buster); -d since Debian 10 (Buster); -l since Debian 10 (Buster); -r since Debian 10 (Buster); -t since Debian 10 (Buster).

--idle-timeout until Debian 13 (Trixie); -i until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Written by Sergey Poznyakoff.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From inetutils 2.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.