On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 01:28 -0700, Jim wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting the talk daemon on my server to work.  When one
> user tries to start a talk session all he gets is a message saying talk is
> waiting for an invitation.  It just sits there.  When I tried ytalk it
> told me there's no talk daemon on my server.  I've got slackware 9 on it.

Make sure you actually have the binary /usr/sbin/talkd.

# ls -al /usr/sbin/in.talkd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 13 09:20 /usr/sbin/in.talkd -> talkd



Make sure inetd is actually waking it up when the socket is tickled.

# talk kevin
(Then, on another terminal...) 
# netstat -a | grep talk
udp 0 0 *:ntalk		*:*		
udp 0 0 localhost:37588 localhost:ntalk  ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 hangar:37589    hangar:ntalk     ESTABLISHED



Also, note that talk is confused by su.

...Kevin






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