Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine
HI,
you can try to do as user:
$ mesg y
It could be that you have your messages turned off.
Greetz,
Sebastian
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote:
> I'm trying to get "talk" to work and can't.
>
> It started out with me trying to "talk" from my Debian box to a friend's
> Mandrake box. After that failed, I turned to trying to get his Mandrake
> box to "talk" to another user on the same Mandrake box. After a while of
> failure, I thought I'd try it on my Debian box.
>
> So I opened two VTs, and logged into one as "westk" and the other as
> "bubba". I tried several incarnations of "talk", such as from the
> "westk" terminal "talk bubba" and "talk bubba tty2" and "talk bubba
> /dev/tty2", etc. I've also tried from xterms from within X, and tried
> talking from westk to westk and from bubba to bubba, etc.
>
> No matter what I've tried I can never get past the caller's screen
> saying "Checking for invitation on caller's machine".
>
> My "/etc/services" file looks like:
> . . .
> printer 515/tcp spooler # line printer spooler
> talk 517/udp
> ntalk 518/udp
> . . .
>
> My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like:
> . . .
> talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> #<off>#
> ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
> . . .
>
>
> My "/etc/hosts.allow" (temporarily, for testing) looks like:
> ALL: 127.0.0.1
>
>
> My "/etc/hosts.deny" looks like:
> ALL: PARANOID
> ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY
> ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY
> ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY
> ALL: 4.16.229.105 : DENY
> ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY
> ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY
> ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY
> ALL: 4.16.229.149 : DENY
>
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
>
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