> Balbir Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I am unable to talk even locally on my own pc. Talk hangs after > > stating "[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]". > > Is there something useful logged in /var/log/daemon.log, while trying > to talk? > > moritz
Thank you for the tip (I did not know /var/log/daemon.log was the place to look - so much for a newbie :-). I solved the problem as follows : /var/log/daemon.log show the following : Jun 8 20:09:18 mandelbrot in.ntalkd[2744]: connect from mandelbrot Jun 8 20:09:18 mandelbrot in.ntalkd[2744]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in. ntalkd: No such file or directory and there is indeed no in.ntalkd file in /usr/sbin ( wonder why it was not installed ?) The relavent lines from /etc/inetd.conf are : talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd So by looking at ktalkd documentation I tried changing this to : talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/kotalkd ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/ktalkd And it all worked. b thomas