Connecting to another machine with the program "Talk"

furntree · 03-31-2007, 05:55 PM

Me and my friend were talking about old instant messaging clients, and he told me about one he used to use called "Talk" for Unix.

apt-get seemed to find it so I installed.

we tried the command

Code:

talk username@hostname

it tried to make a connection but failed. Anyone know how to actually use this program?

bathory · 04-01-2007, 08:05 AM

You need also to have the talkd (the talk daemon) running, so you can accept connections. It's usually started by inetd or xinetd depending of your distro.