HI, you can try to do as user: $ mesg y
It could be that you have your messages turned off. Greetz, Sebastian On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote: > I'm trying to get "talk" to work and can't. > > It started out with me trying to "talk" from my Debian box to a friend's > Mandrake box. After that failed, I turned to trying to get his Mandrake > box to "talk" to another user on the same Mandrake box. After a while of > failure, I thought I'd try it on my Debian box. > > So I opened two VTs, and logged into one as "westk" and the other as > "bubba". I tried several incarnations of "talk", such as from the > "westk" terminal "talk bubba" and "talk bubba tty2" and "talk bubba > /dev/tty2", etc. I've also tried from xterms from within X, and tried > talking from westk to westk and from bubba to bubba, etc. > > No matter what I've tried I can never get past the caller's screen > saying "Checking for invitation on caller's machine". > > My "/etc/services" file looks like: > . . . > printer 515/tcp spooler # line printer spooler > talk 517/udp > ntalk 518/udp > . . . > > My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: > . . . > talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd > #<off># > ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > . . . > > > My "/etc/hosts.allow" (temporarily, for testing) looks like: > ALL: 127.0.0.1 > > > My "/etc/hosts.deny" looks like: > ALL: PARANOID > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 4.16.229.105 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 4.16.229.149 : DENY > > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
