start talk daemon

[juno2]

I can't run the talk function on my system , but I can't find the talkd on my system but we have the program on the system ( /usr/bin/talk ) , how can I start this daemon ? thx

[Karthik S S · Accepted solution]

Hi,

talkd is an Inetd service and will get invoked only when someone tries to connect to your system using talk.

Regards,
Karthik

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi /usr/bin/talk is not talk daemon it is executable.

tal daemon is running as a part of inetd daemon you can confirm in inetd.conf and /etc/services file where entry of talk is there or not.

Sunil

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
check the entry in /etc/inetd.conf and see if all is working.


On my little box

ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/ntalkd ntalkd

This line must not be commented out to work.

If it is not, change and let inetd re-read the configuration, with "inetd -c"

HTH,
Massimo

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check your /etc/inetd.conf for the talk
entry.
Find in the /etc/services the talkd port
and with the telnet you can check if
the deamon run for connection:
telnet
If you will get reasponse that's mean that
the deamon wait for connections.

Caesar

[abema]

hi,

i got problem too...

i've checked all entries is ok but when i do - telnet hostname 517

message was

Trying...
telnet: Unable to connnect to remote host:Connection refused

I am using HP-UX 11i.

any suggestion?