Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-17 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Kent West wrote: > "tcpdump" doesn't seem to be an available command (yes, as root); nor > does "locate" return anything for it. Does this indicate that I'm > perhaps missing a package? It's not "missing", it's just not installed by default apparently. Run apt-get install tcpdump. > >> My "/e

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: Kent West wrote: My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: . . . talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ## ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd . . . Is

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Brian Frederick Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Is "##" in front of the ntalk line? The wrapping of the text # makes this difficult to parse. IIRC you need ntalk enabled. You can # always run tcpdump on the interface being used to see what port the # talk program is trying to connect to

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Kent West wrote: > My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: > . . . > talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd > ## > ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > . . . Is "##" in front of the nt

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Kent West
Sebastiaan wrote: HI, you can try to do as user: $ mesg y It could be that you have your messages turned off. Greetz, Sebastian Sorry; meant to include that in my list of specs. Already tried that; no difference. Thanks anyway. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to ge

Re: Can't "talk" to user on same machine

2001-01-14 Thread Sebastiaan
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. Afte