Re: my machine is refusing talk

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

matthew wrote,

>> $ talk zorzella
>> [Your party is refusing messages]
>> [Press any key to continue]
 
> Even if mesg is "y" and talkd is up:

>If they are using an xsession (as opposed to just plain telnet or ssh),
>then you need to look in the X config files - It's currently set up so
>that you can't talk people on xsessions I think....

I used to regulaarly talk to someone who was logged in through telnet while I was in X.  But after looking at these, i just logged in as another user, and was told that "your party is not logged in"

hmm


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