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

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Sun Aug 6 19:05:15 UTC 2006


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>

-- 
Bill
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