talk problem

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:42:07PM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
>> how do i configure talk daemon to run?
>
>root at 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