On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Bryan Fields wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just had a question about who talk, and the like over a network. I know if i
> have multiple people logged in on a single computer i can use who to see who
> is logged in and where, and talk to talk to them.
>
> now i have a few computers connected over a lan. Is there some program that
> will tell me who is logged in on every computer on the network, and will
> allow me to message them also?
>
> thanks for your input,
>
> Bryan
>
rusers will do what you want. You will need the rusers and
rusers-server package. Talk will let you "chat" with users on your
machine, and users on other machines. You have to deside if providing
the rusers service is an accaptable security risk on your system.
It will require you to be running portmap.
Mikkel
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