I wanted to use talk with my brother (we both have Debian Jessie). So I installed
inetutils-inetd
, inetutils-talk
, and inetutils-talkd
. Now I wanted to try whether it works. So I created a testuser named foo. Then I logged in as this user and as my original user. I switched mesg
on both terminals to yes and then tried this on my originals user:
$talk foo
[Service connection established.]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
And foo never gets a message like it is described in the manpage. I also checked that inetd
is running and enabled talkd
by inetd
. Here's the only line in /etc/inetd.conf
that isn't uncommented.:
talk stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/talkd talkd
I also tried to let both users try to talk to each other, but that didn't work either.
Does anyone know how I can get talk to work?
Asked by Kritzefitz
(673 rep)
Oct 23, 2013, 03:01 PM
Last activity: Sep 27, 2016, 11:33 PM
Last activity: Sep 27, 2016, 11:33 PM