topic Re: talk in Operating System - Linux

talk

Chakravarthi — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 07:59:10 GMT

Hi,

Two users are logged in their machines, can the fist user talk to another user who is in other machine

ex: Machine A has user A
Machine B has User B, can machine A User A use talk command to talk to machine B user B.

when i try i get the following message
[Your party is refusing messages]

thanks
chakri

Re: talk

Mark Grant — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:04:11 GMT

Make sure both users have run "mesg y" to allow access to other users.

Re: talk

Chakravarthi — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:10:57 GMT

i'm using redhat 6.2

Re: talk

Alexander Chuzhoy — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:18:09 GMT

You have to have talk-server package installed and enabled.
It's xinetd based service
in redhat 6.2 I guess you have to edit the file /etc/inetd.conf and change the line with ntalk to enabled.

try to run
chkconfig ntalk on