Re: ISO talk-like utility
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:03:42 -0400 (EDT)
<kynn@panix.com> wrote:
> Hi! I am looking for a simple utility that would enable users to send
> simple messages to the tty of another user currently logged on
> (e.g. "your job # 12345 is slowing down the system!"). The purpose is
> to communicate urgent messages for which e-mail may be too slow (since
> with e-mail, the communication happens only when the recipient chooses
> to read his/her mail).
>
> In other systems that I have worked on there was a command "talk" for
> this sort of thing. What is the standard utility in Debian systems
> for this sort of thing?
Perhaps this will help?
$ apt-cache show talk
Package: talk
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: netkit-ntalk
Version: 0.17-11
Replaces: netstd
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
Suggests: talkd
Filename: pool/main/n/netkit-ntalk/talk_0.17-11_i386.deb
Size: 21448
MD5sum: 1b66efb091d28c740c7ae6fc4c02fcb9
Description: Chat with another user
Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your
terminal to that of another user.
.
In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.
HTH,
Jacob
P.S. "apt-cache search <keyword>" is a very handy tool.
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