Hi, I'm trying to enable the 'talk' in my Debian testing:
% aptitude install talk talkd The following NEW packages will be installed: inetutils-inetd talk talkd 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove. Need to get 120kB of archives. After unpacking 291kB will be used. Then, I can see that inetutils-inetd is running fine: $ ps -eaf | grep [i]net root 18129 1 0 10:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetutils-inetd but still, when I use talk as me or root, I get: Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused While trying to fix the problem myself, I found that both talk and ntalk service are enabled by default. So I disabled talk and left only ntalk enabled: $ grep talk /etc/inetd.conf #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. #talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.talkd in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd in.ntalkd Then, killall -1 inetutils-inetd /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart but still, I can't use talk. Same error. Could anybody help me to fix it? Thanks $ apt-cache policy talk talk: Installed: 0.17-13 Candidate: 0.17-13 Version table: *** 0.17-13 0 600 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca lenny/main Packages 50 http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]