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writesrv(8)
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)

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