program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk daemon

[Rotariu Bogdan]

do
mesg y
then
talk root or what is your logged user and paste
to a mail what says

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Didier Casse" <didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg>
To: "Rotariu Bogdan" <bogdan at alterox.ro>
Cc: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk
daemon


> On 19/02/04, at 23:33 +0800, Didier Casse <didierbeATspsdotnusdotedudotsg>
> wrote:
>
> > On 19/02/04, at 16:42 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > you need to chkconfig talk on and chkconfig ntalk on
> > > service xinetd restart
> > > that should do it
> > > and check if there are no rules that block ports 517-518 UDP
> > >
> >
> > That is precisely what I thought of doing a
> >
> > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 talk on
> > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ntalk on
> >
> > /sbin/service xinetd restart
> >
> > and still the same old error message from talk:
> >
> > i.e
> >
> > "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key"
> >
> >
>
> Oh yeah an  nmap -sU myhost reveals:
>
> (The 1470 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> PORT      STATE SERVICE
> 68/udp    open  dhcpclient
> 111/udp   open  rpcbind
> 123/udp   open  ntp
> 137/udp   open  netbios-ns
> 138/udp   open  netbios-dgm
> 518/udp   open  ntalk
> 784/udp   open  unknown
> 32768/udp open  omad
>
> Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.897 seconds
>
>
> As suspected nothing blocks port 518/udp :-/
>
> Any other idea of how to get that %@^&^ talk program to run properly? :-)
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Didier.
>
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