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isoaga
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Location: Newcastle, Australia
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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:15 am Post subject: talkd and Xinetd are giving me nightmares ... |
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Ok, all i want to do is enable some sort of LAN instant messaging between two gentoo boxes. It looked as though talk in some form was the way to go about this so i have since done the following...
added the following to my /etc/xinet.conf file
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defaults
{
only_from = localhost
instances = 60
log_type = SYSLOG authpriv info
log_on_success = HOST PID
log_on_failure = HOST
cps = 25 30
}
includedir /etc/xinetd.d
service talk
{
only_from = somehostip
server = /usr/sbin/talkd
socket_type = dgram
user = nobody
wait = no
}
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restarted the xinetd countless times with
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xinetd restart |
but whenever i try to use talk by:
| Code: | | talk chris@machinename |
i get a "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused"
and i get a similar error using ytalk.
Could someone please explain my error,
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kopfarzt
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Joined: 05 Apr 2003
Posts: 170
Location: Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Did you emerge a talkd as well? If not try net-misc/netkit-talk. Remove the bottom lines of your xinted.conf and edit instead the version installed in /etc/xinetd.d/talk.
Note, that talk is a rather "old" protocol and usually receiving talk requests is disabled in newer installations. You might succeed with saying on the receiving side.
Also watch your /var/log/everything/current (if you are using metalog) for talk requests.
Hope this helps a little bit
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soth
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| Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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it worked fine on one machine when i put localhost in only from.
did you try it with user@localhost between two users on the same machine? did that work?
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