On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:38:24PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone;
>
> I'm attempting to initiate a conversation via talk(1) however upon
> executing the command I receive the following error:
>
> talk: Couldn't bind to control socket: Can't assign requested address
>
> I've uncommented the line in /etc/inetd.conf which corresponds to the
> talkd daemon, however talk still refuses to work:
>
> ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/ntalkd ntalkd
>
> Am I missing something? Does anyone else have this issue? Thank you in
> advance.
>
> Ben Raskin.
>
inetd is not enabled by default.
-Otto
