Brian Schramm wrote:
> OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk
> installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always
> comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I
> thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The
> man pages and config files are no help. Everything that I have
> read says it should be working. Any ideas?
Yup. Any user who wants to recieve word from the talk daemon that
somebody's trying to chat with them needs to have:
mesg y
in their .bash_profile (or if you want to make talk accessability
mandatory for some reason, you can put the line in /etc/profile).
It's not enabled by default (some folks don't want to be bugged by
every soul who telnets into their box). :-)
> Brian Schramm
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