How to talk/ytalk in slackware?
 

Hi, Group

I have not figure out how to make talk/ytalk work on my slack box. I've already enabled in.talkd daemon in my inetnd.conf file. But it just still does not work. I test it in the same computer. The command line is:

~user-b $ talk user-a (in one terminal window)
~user-a $ talk user-b (in another terminal window)

the talk program seems complains that peer user is not logged in.

Can anyone has a successful experience? Thanks.

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woody

Add in /etc/hosts.allow

talkd: ALL

Reload inetd with

# killall -HUP inetd

The result is the same. In one end, it says "trying to connect to your party's daemon", in the other end, it says: "Waiting for your party respond"

I think even without "talkd: ALL", my previous hosts.allow should already allow the talk traffic, since it has "ALL: 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0"

If you're using slackware's talk(1) you are using the ntalk protocol (udp/518).
Try enabling a listening daemon in inted.conf

and restarting inetd via

Sorry, is in.talkd in /etc/hosts.allow no talkd...

Restart inetd:

and allow write access in your terminal:

This works for me.

Followed this method, I got target machine does not recognize us ...