[TAG] cannot talk using "talk"

[Thomas Adam]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:07:17PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:

> The "talk" command is/was used initially by BSD to allow users on a LAN to
> talk to one another. But what you also need is talkd -- which is the remote
> user authentication tool. "Talkd" has to be spawned from inetd if it is to
> work, this something like the following [1]:

Well done, me. :)

[1] This is from memory and so is possibly inaccurate. Either way, the entries
may well already be installed into the file: /etc/inetd.conf - and if no such
entries exist, those lines should be added to this file.

-- Thomas Adam

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