Talk refused by default?

[Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk>]

Hi,

Out of curiosity (how else do you learn *nix systems?), I attempted
to talk between two logins on separate Debian 2.2 machines.

I received an error message that the remote-end was refusing connects
which seems contrary to the lines in /etc/default/devpts e.g.

  TTYGRP=5
  TTYMODE=620

The comment associated with TTYMODE says change to 600 to make mesg n
the default.

If I execute mesg y on the remote machine I can talk to it. What am I
missing here?

Regards,
Neil Darlow.

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