Michael Schwendt <ms0301rh@arcor.de> writes: >> 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. Doesn't yield anything like what? What I posted was a direct result of a query: rpm -ql talk /usr/bin/talk /usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz > You would need a talk client/server pair on both ends of the > communication. Even on localhost, you would need the server. Where is the server? Running a query of the distro database, searching all distro packages for talk shows this: ytalk-3.1.1-10 netatalk-1.5.3.1-4 talk-0.17-17 ktalkd-3.0.3-3 netatalk-devel-1.5.3.1-4 talk-server-0.17-17 All except `talk' and `talk-server' appear to be specialized or rely upon the first two. I have talk-0.17-17 installed: rpm -qa |grep talk talk-0.17-17 With this only, none of the files you showed below are installed > /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk > /etc/xinetd.d/talk > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd But note that the `talk' command is available: which talk /usr/bin/talk So attempting to install talk-server like: up2date -i talk-server Now note that talk-0.17-17 is gone: rpm -qa |grep talk talk-server-0.17-17 Note further that the `talk' command is no longer available which talk /usr/bin/which: no talk in ([...] <my_path>) So having these files: > /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk > /etc/xinetd.d/talk > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd Is not very usefull if no talk command is available. > "chkconfig ntalk on" should be enough. # chkconfig ntalk on # talk -bash: talk: command not found # ntalk -bash: ntalk: command not found Something is wrong here. Installing talk-server has removed `talk'. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
