Talk service on RHL/FC

Scott Elcomb Scott.Elcomb-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 19 14:29:27 UTC 2004


Hi all,

I've tried getting talk service running under various Red Hat
(RHL7.1+/FC1) distributions a number of times over the past year.

It seems to work just fine, except for the fact that both users sessions
just sit at the message:

  [ Checking for invitation on caller's machine ]

and that's it.  As soon as a key is pressed, it quits to the shell.  :(

I've tried getting the debug messages (per the manpage) by setting

  server		= /usr/sbin/in.talkd
  server_args		= -d

in /etc/xinetd.d/talk, but either the log is not being created or it's
being written somewhere other than described (/var/log/talkd.log).

Not particularly important, but somewhat annoying.

If anyone has any pointers or could recommend another package for
shell-chat, it would be most appreciated.  :)

Thanks,

- Scott.

-- 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avalonweb/

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