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 >