Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-22 Thread Kent West
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is which with the "tty" command, and then from on

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to > talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is > which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say > /dev/pt

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: syslog reports: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz Thanks, Moritz! That did it!

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > syslog reports: > error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd: No such file or directory It seems you don't have the talk daemon installed; it's in the package 'talkd'. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Deb

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Moritz Schulte wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. [...] The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower), the top reports "No connection yet" for a few seconds, and then reports

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Kent West
Philipp Schulte wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say /dev/p

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying > to talk to myself within X. [...] > The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower), the top > reports "No connection yet" for a few seconds, and then reports > "Checking for invitat

Re: "talk" doesn't

2001-01-21 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 10:23:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to > talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is > which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say > /dev/pts/0) I type "talk

"talk" doesn't

2001-01-20 Thread Kent West
I can't get the "talk" program to work. Just as a test, I'm trying to talk to myself within X. I open two terminals, find which terminal is which with the "tty" command, and then from one terminal (say /dev/pts/0) I type "talk westk pts/1". The screen divides into two sections (upper and lower)

Re: talk doesn't let me talk

1997-08-01 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > > Yesterday it happened that I was working on my debian machine (1.3) from = > home, and another user of the same machine was working from home as well.= > We wanted to talk to each other but we simply couldn't. ytalk said that = > the other party refusing messages while I know that he is al

talk doesn't let me talk

1997-08-01 Thread John Garas
Yesterday it happened that I was working on my debian machine (1.3) from home, and another user of the same machine was working from home as well. We wanted to talk to each other but we simply couldn't. ytalk said that the other party refusing messages while I know that he is also trying to tal