[KLUG Members] Talk

[Jeremy Leonard]

it works now.
I needed to have ntalk running not just talk
I don't even know if talk is needed. I just haven't shut it down to find 
out. Thanks for the help!

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jeremy Leonard wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
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