NAME

writesrv − Lets users send messages to and receive messages from a remote system. 

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/writesrv

DESCRIPTION

The writesrv daemon allows users to send messages to users on a remote system, and to receive responses from users on a remote system with the write command. 

The writesrv command receives incoming requests from a write command and creates a server process to handle the request.  This server process communicates with the client process (write) and provides whatever services are requested. 

To perform these services, the writesrv daemon creates a socket on the port defined in the /etc/services file.  All requests for service go as messages to this socket. 

STARTING AND STOPPING writesrv. 

You can cause the writesrv daemon to be started during system boot with /sbin/init.d/write. The writesrv daemon starts automatically if the WRITESRV variable is defined properly in /etc/re.config. To start writesrv automatically during system boot, do the following as superuser. 

rcmgr set WRITESRV   yes

To prevent writesrv from starting automatically during system boot, do the following as superuser:

rcmgr set WRITESRV   no

By default, writesrv is not set and therefore /usr/sbin/writesrv does not run. 

You can start the writesrv daemon manually as follows:

/sbin/init.d/write   start

You can stop writesrv manually as follows:

/sbin/init.d/write   stop

NOTES

If the writesrv daemon terminates abnormally (that is, for a system crash, a power failure, or the kill -9 command), someone must manually clean out the /usr/spool/writesrv directory to remove any files left behind. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands:  write(1)

Files: services(4)