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

[Shawn K. O'Shea]

talkd isn't likely installed by default.

Do a:
yum install talk-server
chkconfig talk on

and that should get it going. I used to use talk a lot "back in the day"

-Shawn

William L. Maltby wrote:
> 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
>> <snip>
>>     
>
> For consideration for other readers, try to avoid top-post. As you can
> see, I answer and snip (habitually too) so late-comers will not see the
> start. If you mix in, I tend to get it right.
>
> HTH
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>