[TriLUG] ack ... "talk" doesn't work on seawolf

[Brent Verner]

On 19 Aug 2001 at 09:10 (-0400), rpjday wrote:
| 
| ah, now this is odd.  although i've enabled all three of telnet,
| talk and ntalk thru xinetd, netstat shows the entry for telnet
| in "LISTEN" mode (and telnet works nicely, thanks -- no subtle
| digs about ssh, please).
| 
| but both talk and ntalk, although they show up in the output of
| netstat, have a blank "State" field at the end of the line.
| i'm not sure what this means.  that they're both running, but
| neither are listening?

What user are the talkd services running as? IIRC, they must run
as a user that has permission to write to the recipient's tty.

  b