Hi all,

I am trying to run the talk command. i am getting the following results:

1)[No connection yet]
2)error from talk read daemon:connection refused. press
any key

then i googled for any possible solution and i found this thread.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...33#post1398433

i was reading the step:
1. Paste the following lines into '/etc/xinetd.d/talk'

but in my dapper 6.06.1 machine when i tried
cat: /etc/xinetd.d/talk, i am getting the message
No such file or directory

in my /etc directory there is no directory named xinetd.d

In your /etc directory, is there a file called inetd.conf? If so, then do this:

You probably need to uncomment those lines; that is, edit the file so that the initial "#" is removed from each line.

If those lines already don't start with "#", then come back here and post those lines.

Hope this helps.

I tried what you said.

the command grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
gave me the following results:-

talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.talkd in.talkd

ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd in.ntalkd

there is no line that starts with #
in fact the whole contents of the file are as follows

talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.talkd in.talkd
ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd in.ntalkd
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd

Your /etc/inetd.conf seems very, very stripped down if there are only three lines in it, and no comment lines. I'm curious as to whether this is a clean install of your distribution.

Could you please post the content of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny?

Here are the contents of /etc/hosts.allow

# /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system.
# See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5)
# and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz
#
# Example: ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup
# ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu
#
# If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the
# daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP
# addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper, as well as for
# rpc.mountd (the NFS mount daemon). See portmap(8), rpc.mountd(8) and
# /usr/share/doc/portmap/portmapper.txt.gz for further information.
#

here are the contents of /etc/hosts.deny

# /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system.
# See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5)
# and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz
#
# Example: ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain
# ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain
#
# If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name "portmap" for the
# daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword "ALL" and IP
# addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8)
# and /usr/doc/portmap/portmapper.txt.gz for further information.
#
# The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its
# address.

# You may wish to enable this to ensure any programs that don't
# validate looked up hostnames still leave understandable logs. In past
# versions of Debian this has been the default.
# ALL: PARANOID

Try adding one of the following lines (or the appropriate variation thereof) to the end of /etc/hosts.allow.

Repeat for in.ntalkd and in.fingerd if you wish.

Do this for each affected machine.

Then reboot and see if it makes a difference.

Then reboot and see if it makes a difference.[/QUOTE]

I tried all what you have said but still no result.
BTW what does the above steps signify????
note : i didn't try for in.ntalkd and in.fingerd

what you have said earlier may be true I doubt if this is a clean installation. I actually installed breezy then upgraded to dapper via internet

Quoth sulekha:
Since nothing else is working, try all this for at least in.ntalkd.

Otherwise, I'm at a loss.

For more information on files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, google for this (including the quotation marks):

I tried all what you have said but still no result.
BTW what does the above steps signify????
note : i didn't try for in.ntalkd and in.fingerd

what you have said earlier may be true I doubt if this is a clean installation. I actually installed breezy then upgraded to dapper via internet[/QUOTE]


There is no result yet again. it is as if telling back to square one.

well this is what i tried after editing /etc/hosts.allow

i brought up 2 terminals and tried

celsius@ubuntu:~$ who
celsius :0 2007-07-24 21:50
celsius pts/0 2007-07-24 21:50 (:0.0)
celsius pts/1 2007-07-24 21:51 (:0.0)
celsius@ubuntu:~$ tty
/dev/pts/1
celsius@ubuntu:~$ talk celsius pts/1
celsius@ubuntu:~$

[No connection yet]
[Error on read from talk daemon: connection refused.Press any key...]

[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

with mouse cursor blinking
___________________________________________________

and when i press any key

it is back to the terminal

I'm at a loss here. I've used "talk" before, with no problem.

If I were in your position, I might try a clean installation.

Maybe someone else can jump in and help.