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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060806/d757186e/attachment-0005.sig>