[CentOS] talking to users on on other boxes within my network...

Sun Aug 6 19:24:57 UTC 2006
bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net>

hi william...

it might be an issue with talk... when i do a 'talk test' from one of my
term windows when i'm logged in as 'root' a get a connection err msg..

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] talking to users on on other boxes within my
network...


On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:21 -0700, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> is there a way to talk to users on other machines within my network?
>
> the 'talk' function apparently only works with users on the same box..

I don't think that is correct. Two reasons: man page shows synopsis and
text that tends to indicate it will talk across machines; second I got a
nice connection refused message when I tried it here. I expected that
message.

Do you have more details about your (apparent?) failure to succeed?
Commands tried, config files altered, etc.?

>
> -bruce
> <snip sig stuff>

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Bill