talk set up

[Hiisi]

2009/10/8 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com>:
> Hiisi wrote:
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>
> talk is an ancient thing and I highly recommend you don't use it, for
> the same reasons you shouldn't user telnet or any other unencrypted
> communications.

Where's the vulnerability if I only want to chat with another person?
I don't think I'll be using some secret information. If somebody will
read my messages (if any, in this awful windows surrounding full of
beautiful blonde girls running they window$ laptops) I don't care. I
won't use any passwords. I don't need them to connect, do I? What
program should I use instead?

>
> If you must, you have to install the talk-server RPM, make sure that
> the talkd daemon is set to run or have xinetd start it for you and
> have UDP port 517 open in the firewall on both machines.
>

I installed talk-server and xinetd (yum did it for dependences). Now
what? 'service talk start'
talk: tuntematon palvelu (unknown service) How to start it? How can I
set it up to be started by xinetd?

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Thank you, Rick!

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