On Friday 22 June 2001 23:38, Ambrosius wrote:
I tried running inetd, and the talk daemon seems to be working. It refuses to prompt the other user when running from xinetd. The called user never gets a prompt. So it looks like a problem with my xinetd. I've enabled it via xinetd but it refuses to work. I realize that this is not exactly a pressing issue, but I would appreciate some input from you more experienced users.
Are you using KDE as the Desktop? If so, I would recommend that you use ktalkd, it plays a sound (your choice) and pops up a new terminal to establish the connection... convenient. The setup is a simple as: /etc/inetd.conf #talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd #ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde2/bin/kotalkd ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /opt/kde2/bin/ktalkd and in KDE Control Center go to the Network section, Talk configuration. The help page is also quite useful for more advanced use. Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4GB -=- KDE 2.1.1 11:41pm up 8 days, 12:26, 4 users, load average: 1.37, 1.33, 1.27