Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Hi, 

I'm trying to enable the 'talk' in my Debian testing:

 % aptitude install talk talkd
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   inetutils-inetd talk talkd 
 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove.
 Need to get 120kB of archives. After unpacking 291kB will be used.

Then, I can see that inetutils-inetd is running fine:

 $ ps -eaf | grep [i]net
 root     18129     1  0 10:48 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetutils-inetd

but still, when I use talk as me or root, I get:

 Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused

While trying to fix the problem myself, I found that both talk and ntalk
service are enabled by default. So I disabled talk and left only ntalk
enabled:

 $ grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
 #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols.
 #talk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody.tty      /usr/sbin/in.talkd     in.talkd
 ntalk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody.tty      /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd    in.ntalkd

Then, 

 killall -1 inetutils-inetd
 /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart

but still, I can't use talk. Same error. 

Could anybody help me to fix it? 

Thanks

$ apt-cache policy talk
talk:
  Installed: 0.17-13
  Candidate: 0.17-13
  Version table:
 *** 0.17-13 0
        600 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages
         50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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