Jana Kasparova wrote:
Hi,I have a problem with talk on the same machine. What I receive is: Checking for invitation on caller's machine I noticed some discussion about this problem on this mailing list but I didn't find any solution. So, I open two xterms as user janca, both have mesg y, talk janca pts/1 gives only Checking for invitation on caller's machine . Any help? Jana /etc/inetd.conf: 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 /etc/services: talk 517/udp ntalk 518/udp /etc/hosts.allow: sendmail: all /etc/hosts.deny: ALL: PARANOID
It's been a while, but I think the solution I finally stumbled on was to install talkd (I would've figured that talkd would be a dependency for talk, but . . . ).
Kent
