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Old 08-04-2004, 08:49 PM   #1
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How to start talkd?!!


I've been struggling with this for the entire afternoon! I had a friend on my box and I wanted to have a talk session with him to go over some stuff and this problem killed the whole idea.

now i just can't seem to let it go (funny how that is, huh)

so here's the scoop-

I edited /etc/inetd.conf as per the following snipette:

<snip>
#
# Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols
#
#shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd -L
#login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind
# exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd
talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
#

then i did a
# kill -HUP <inetd PID>

when I tried talk again, no go.. it just sat there at the split screen and said:
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

I then nmap'ed myself and found that talkd was not listening... hmmmm. so i thought that i'd try to start it by hand like so:

# /usr/sbin/in.talkd

which gives me this response:
Socket operation on non-socketroot

So I *THINK* i know that the problem is that the talk daemon is not running, but i'm not sure how to start it. datagrams will work on sockets, right?

thanks for putting up with me everyone!

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Old 09-01-2011, 01:24 AM   #2
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I am also having this problem on Slackware64 13.37. It seems talkd terminates.
 
Old 09-01-2011, 04:06 AM   #3
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It's working fine here on -Current 32 bit
 
Old 09-03-2011, 07:19 AM   #4
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I have talk working here on one of the boxen on the LAN. Just in case I need to talk to someone while IRC and such is down (or rather when my ISP drops the connection over a weekend). It's not ideal and I suppose I could set up a local irc server.

Basicaly uncomment talkd in /etc/inetd.conf, restart /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd. Then just use talk to connect. WFM.
 
Old 12-20-2011, 10:22 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Michielvw View Post
Basicaly uncomment talkd in /etc/inetd.conf, restart /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd. Then just use talk to connect. WFM.
It seems the original poster tried; so did I. However, apparently /usr/bin/kotalkd and /usr/bin/ktalkd do not exist on my system, though I did a full Slackware install.

Last edited by dchmelik; 12-20-2011 at 10:31 PM.
 
Old 12-29-2011, 02:14 PM   #6
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Right, I can see where the confusion comes from: Basically you need to uncomment the following line:
Code:
# talk	dgram	udp	wait	root	/usr/sbin/tcpd	in.talkd
as for the program needed: the talk daemon is called "in.talkd" and resides in /usr/sbin and is part of the netkit-ntalk package in Slackware.
 
Old 12-29-2011, 03:14 PM   #7
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Maybe you could use ' wall ' command as alternative ?
 
Old 12-29-2011, 05:24 PM   #8
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talkd set up drove me nuts ages ago. So I gave up on it and set up mumble server to use murmur. This gives voice capability as well. Of course this is to help out on other boxes as I no longer let anyone log onto my box or server from the outside.
 
Old 12-30-2011, 02:31 AM   #9
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as for the program needed: the talk daemon is called "in.talkd" and resides in /usr/sbin and is part of the netkit-ntalk package in Slackware.[/QUOTE]

It is not there. I suppose I had an installation problem.
 
  


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