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[Jeremy Leonard]

Alright tried this. Still no go.
I still get:
....[ Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any key... 
]....


On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Peter Buxton wrote:

> 
> > I'm logged in through putty/ssh as jeremy and with to talk to valm
> > 
> > What is this mesg thing?
> 
> Do 'man mesg'.
> 
> mesg sets the g+w flag (man chmod) for your ttyX or pty/X entry:
> 
> > > [jeremy@elite jeremy]$ ls -l /dev/pts
> > > crw-------    1 valm     tty      136,   0 May 29 08:59 0
> 
> jeremy has it on, below (set by the talk client) and valm above needs 
> to run:
> 
> mesg y
> 
> to set his, otherwise 'talk valm' will return with a "user not 
> responding" error.
> 
> > crw--w----    1 jeremy   tty      136,   1 May 29 09:00 1
> 
> Now try it.
> 
>