Re: Problems with talkd
"Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote on 21/03/2001 (08:38) :
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:35:12PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote on 19/03/2001 (17:10) :
> > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 03:44:44PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > > > I cannot get talk to work _to_ my machine. When people try to talk it
> > > > says I refuse to talk to them. If I talk to them, then it works. Does
> > > > anybody have a solution for this? I use Debian Woody (testing)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > In ~/.bashrc
> > >
> > > mesg y
> >
> > I have that, but still it says:
> >
> > [No connection yet]
> > [Your party is refusing messages]
> >
> > If I use the talkd and talk from the stable distribution it claims I'm
> > not logged on.
> >
> > I don't understand this.
>
> And /etc/inetd.conf says?
talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.talkd in.talkd
ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd in.ntalkd
#ident stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/identd identd
#finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.finger
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