do mesg y then talk root or what is your logged user and paste to a mail what says ----- Original Message ----- From: "Didier Casse" <didierbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Rotariu Bogdan" <bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:47 PM Subject: Re: Re: program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk daemon > On 19/02/04, at 23:33 +0800, Didier Casse <didierbeATspsdotnusdotedudotsg> > wrote: > > > On 19/02/04, at 16:42 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > you need to chkconfig talk on and chkconfig ntalk on > > > service xinetd restart > > > that should do it > > > and check if there are no rules that block ports 517-518 UDP > > > > > > > That is precisely what I thought of doing a > > > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 talk on > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ntalk on > > > > /sbin/service xinetd restart > > > > and still the same old error message from talk: > > > > i.e > > > > "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key" > > > > > > Oh yeah an nmap -sU myhost reveals: > > (The 1470 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) > PORT STATE SERVICE > 68/udp open dhcpclient > 111/udp open rpcbind > 123/udp open ntp > 137/udp open netbios-ns > 138/udp open netbios-dgm > 518/udp open ntalk > 784/udp open unknown > 32768/udp open omad > > Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.897 seconds > > > As suspected nothing blocks port 518/udp :-/ > > Any other idea of how to get that %@^&^ talk program to run properly? :-) > > > With kind regards, > > Didier. > > --- > PhD student. > > Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) > 5 Research Link, > Singapore 117603 > > Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg / > didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
