2009/10/8 Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx>: > Hiisi wrote: <--SNIP--> > > talk is an ancient thing and I highly recommend you don't use it, for > the same reasons you shouldn't user telnet or any other unencrypted > communications. Where's the vulnerability if I only want to chat with another person? I don't think I'll be using some secret information. If somebody will read my messages (if any, in this awful windows surrounding full of beautiful blonde girls running they window$ laptops) I don't care. I won't use any passwords. I don't need them to connect, do I? What program should I use instead? > > If you must, you have to install the talk-server RPM, make sure that > the talkd daemon is set to run or have xinetd start it for you and > have UDP port 517 open in the firewall on both machines. > I installed talk-server and xinetd (yum did it for dependences). Now what? 'service talk start' talk: tuntematon palvelu (unknown service) How to start it? How can I set it up to be started by xinetd? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - To err is human, to moo bovine. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you, Rick! -- Hiisi. Registered Linux User #487982. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- Spandex is a privilege, not a right. -- SIP: hiisi@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ pub 1024D/085B139A -- Powered by Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines