[KLUG Members] Talk

[Peter Buxton]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:10:22AM -0400, Jeremy Leonard was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> I tried starting it from the bash prompt. The server daemon I mean.
> /usr/sbin/in.talkd

Did you do it as root? Do you run the client as root? Do `ls -l` on the
tty (/dev/tty1 or /dev/ptysomething) for the permissions.

Does the syslog say anything interesting after you try the client?

With xinetd listening on talk port, do `strace -o file.st talk`.

> service talk
> {
>         disable = no
>         socket_type             = dgram
>         wait                    = yes
>         user                    = nobody
>         group                   = tty
>         server                  = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> }

If it doesn't work, try:

  server = /usr/bin/strace -o /tmp/file.st /usr/sbin/in.talkd

I'm betting it is a permission error. See:

/tmp/.X11-unix:
total 0
srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 May 27 07:53 X0

That file, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, is a Unix filesystem domain socket. It
behaves almost exactly the same way as an Internet IP address domain
socket on localhost: it is the name of an IP socket that never leaves
your machine, only instead of 127.0.0.1:25, say, its address is
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0.

Access to a Unix domain socket is governed by standard file permissions.
(So too with ttys.) I think your permissions are screwed up.

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