Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine
To quote Brian Frederick Kimball <bfk@footbag.org>,
# Is "#<off>#" in front of the ntalk line? The wrapping of the text
# makes this difficult to parse. IIRC you need ntalk enabled. You can
# always run tcpdump on the interface being used to see what port the
# talk program is trying to connect to (that's how I found I needed
ntalk
# also).
#
# As someone else said, make sure "msg n" hasn't been run by any of the
# users you're trying to talk with.
You can use the 'update-inetd' Debian utility to turn inetd services
on/off. That's where the #<off># came from.
David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay
Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
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