[KLUG Members] Talk

[Jeremy Leonard]

On 28 May 2003, Adam Williams wrote:

> > 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
> 

[root@elite root]# netstat -ap | grep talk
udp        0      0 *:talk                  *:*    978/xinetd

I do have a firewall. I dropped it though and it didn't make a difference.

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