Re: talk facility

[Brian Longwe <blongwe at psg.com>]

It looks like originally, inetd wasn't forkig a talk daemon, now that ti
is you ca refer back to the previous emails and try the suggestions that
have already bee made. I think that the 'mesg y' might do the trick.

best wishes,

Longwe

On Mon, 28 May 101, Daniel Omondi Otieno wrote:

>  
>  > When i try to talk the user on the same host first i get no connection
>  > then immediately target machine does not recognize us.
>  
>  have you checked that talk is allowed to the host, i.e. inetd.conf has the
>  daemon uncommented, there is no ipfw or other filter, etc?
>  
> > randy
> 
>  After reconfiguring inetd.conf and restarting:
> When I try talking it gives me :
> Checking for an invitation on caller's machine
> Checking for an invitation on caller's machine
> 
> this continues on and on and .........
> what could be the problem now.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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