[TriLUG] talk problem

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:10, Ralph Blach wrote:
> I need to start the talk deamon on my machine.  when I start xinetd in 
> the debug mode, I get
> this message
> 
> the machine is a redhat 9.0 x86 machine
> 
> Starting xinetd with the  -d option I get
> 
> Service configuration: talk
>         id = talk
>         flags = IPv4
>         socket_type = dgram
>         Protocol (name,number) = (udp,17)
>         port = 517
>         Groups = no
>         PER_SOURCE = -1
>         Bind = All addresses.
>         Server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
>         Server argv = in.talkd -d
>         Only from: All sites
>         No access: No blocked sites
>         Logging to syslog. Facility = authpriv, level = info
>         Log_on_success flags = HOST PID
>         Log_on_failure flags = HOST
> 
> This seems to indicate that the talk deamon started ok
> 
> my /etc/xinet.d/talk file has
> 
> 
> # default: off
> # description: The talk server accepts talk requests for chatting with 
> users \
> #    on other systems.
> service talk
> {
>     flags            = IPv4
>     disable            = no
>     socket_type        = dgram
>     protocol            = udp
>     wait            = yes
>     user            = nobody
>     group            = tty
>     server            = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
>     server_args             = -d
> 
> }
> 
> and my host.allow file has
> talk:127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0, 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0, 
> 10.1.0.0/255.255.255.252:allow
> 

Shouldn't this be "talkd" instead of "talk"?

- Jon

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> But when I start talk I get this message
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>  Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any key... ]
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> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Chip