On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 12:24 -0700, bruce wrote:
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..
Do a 'man talkd' and 'man talk' (I know you did that one already). Then if you have tcpwrappers going (you *should* have... I think current terminology is port* something or other), check out your /etc/host.allow and hosts.deny (and read their man pages - saves some counter-intuitive angst). Make sure talk is enabled in /etc/services. Remember that talk is essentially an enhanced "write" command from the old days and terminal permissions will also affect success.
If you are in a X environment, check out Applications->Internet and Internet Messenger and IRC there. I believe gaim has a bunch of stuff. Which actually provide the features, I can't say. I suspect there's some others. I check out my local yum info file and post again if I see some other good candidates.
-bruce
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HTH