program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk daemon

[Ronny Buchmann]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:56, Didier Casse wrote:
> Hi all,
>        I just realized that my "talk"  program doesn't work on FC1,. When
> I try to talk to a user, i.e
>
> talk someuser
>
> it gives me back
>
> "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key"
>
> then a
>
> "Checking for invitation on caller's machine."
>
> An rpm -qa|grep talk, gives:
>
> talk-server-0.17-21
> talk-0.17-21
> ytalk-3.1.1-14
>
> meaning I've the server and client installed.
>
> My /etc/xinetd.d/talk reads;
>
you need to enable ntalk not talk (you will find this easily with "tcpcump -i 
lo", btw ;)

I think you should bugzilla this (why do we provide two daemons, but only one 
client, and also with a misleading name)

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