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@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of William L. Maltby Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 12:05 PM To: CentOS General List 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
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