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Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

Sebastiaan wrote:


HI,

you can try to do as user:
$ mesg y

It could be that you have your messages turned off.

Greetz,
Sebastian
Sorry; meant to include that in my list of specs. Already tried that; no difference. Thanks anyway. 



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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