>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Dorneanu <spooky@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Paul> even if my talk daemon is running... when trying to Paul> talk/ytalk to someone on the same host it is saying Paul> connection refused / No talk daemon on my.host... Paul> my firewall is disabled also... Paul> any ideea? Paul> btw, I know someone said: sevice talk start... but there is Paul> no such service like talk. it runs in xinetd.d sserver Paul> where disabled is no and eveything is the default... Paul> strange is that it is behaving like that on 2 fedora Paul> installations... Have you edited /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk? disable = no is required - I think the default is disable = yes. -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire