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[Adam Williams]

> It's supposed to start in xinetd But it doesn't seem to.
> I tried starting it from the bash prompt. The server daemon I mean.
> /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> I know it uses UDP.
> What does c'n'p mean.
> below is listing of /etc/xinetd.d/talk
> service talk
> {
>         disable = no
>         socket_type             = dgram
>         wait                    = yes
>         user                    = nobody
>         group                   = tty
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> }
> When I try to start the client I get:
> Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any key... 

Is it listening on the talk port?

[root@estate2 root]# netstat -ap | grep talk
udp      0      0 *:talk            *:*    12317/xinetd

Do you have any firewall rules configured?  (Such as anaconda will
create for you upon installation).