-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:36:59 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Anyone else having problems with the `talk' program? > > I'm referring to > talk-0.17-17 > > According to man page for `talk' it seems that is all that is required > and refers to contacting a talk daemon. However the only files > installed with talk are: > /usr/bin/talk > /usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz > > No talkd which is mentioned in the `see also' part of `talk' manpage. > > This led me to think I needed another package `talk-server' but > installing it causes `talk' to be uninstalled and vice versa. Querying the rpms doesn't yield anything like that. The talk-server packages only obsoletes an older "ntalk" package. You would need a talk client/server pair on both ends of the communication. Even on localhost, you would need the server. > According to man page all I'm supposed to need is: > > `talk some_user' > But trying that only gives me this screen: > [No connection yet] > [...] > [ Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any > key... ] > > And then > [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] > > At this point if I touch enter or any key I'm back to my prompt. > > There doesn't seem to be any `talk' service or anything under > xinetd.d to be turned on. /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk /etc/xinetd.d/talk /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd /usr/sbin/in.talkd "chkconfig ntalk on" should be enough. (Note that at least in.ntalkd is compiled with tcp wrappers.) > Further, typing `mesg' on some_user's terminal shows: > $ mesg > is y > > I see nothing in the manpage to indicate further steps are necessary. > > Anyone recognize the problem? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+amB20iMVcrivHFQRAuaaAJ43BKz+aCbT7znE6qQBr2jAeM95SACfdLxp hhFMGC4SitKD2WVGxWIkEfY= =B0Ou -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
