i have the service running, and i have opened the port 517 in my firewall
configuration
netstat -l shows
udp 0 0 *:talk *:*
mesg y gives the error:
mesg: error: tty device is not owned by group `tty'
how do i configure the tty permissions?
Regards,
Jeetu
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Tom Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:42:07PM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> >> how do i configure talk daemon to run?
> >
> >root@xxxxx# service talk start
> >
> >Or if you want it to run when you boot up the machine go into
> >redhat-config-services and check 'talk'
>
> Also the tty (terminal) permissions need to permit talk. See the
> command "mesg" as in "mesg y" or "mesg n".
>
> The daemon needs to be running, firewall permissions must permit
> connections to the talk port and then permissions to the terminal need
> to be opened up. i.e. ...Three things....
>
> >From the talk man page (man talk) read about these related programs.
> SEE ALSO
> mail(1), mesg(1), who(1), write(1), talkd(8)
>
> The standard port is 517
> /etc/services:talk 517/udp
> See also ntalk on port 518
> /etc/services:ntalk 518/udp
>
>
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