program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk daemon

[Didier Casse]

On 19/02/04, at 18:00 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro> wrote:

> do
> mesg y
> then
> talk root or what is your logged user and paste
> to a mail what says


it says:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[No connection yet]


"Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key"

and then

[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

but no user actually receives the talk request as it should be!


PS: everybody has "mesg y"! And "write user" works fine w/o any problems!


With kind regards,

Didier.


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Didier Casse" <didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg>
> To: "Rotariu Bogdan" <bogdan at alterox.ro>
> Cc: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk
> daemon
> 
> 
> > On 19/02/04, at 23:33 +0800, Didier Casse <didierbeATspsdotnusdotedudotsg>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 19/02/04, at 16:42 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > you need to chkconfig talk on and chkconfig ntalk on
> > > > service xinetd restart
> > > > that should do it
> > > > and check if there are no rules that block ports 517-518 UDP
> > > >
> > >
> > > That is precisely what I thought of doing a
> > >
> > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 talk on
> > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ntalk on
> > >
> > > /sbin/service xinetd restart
> > >
> > > and still the same old error message from talk:
> > >
> > > i.e
> > >
> > > "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key"
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Oh yeah an  nmap -sU myhost reveals:
> >
> > (The 1470 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> > PORT      STATE SERVICE
> > 68/udp    open  dhcpclient
> > 111/udp   open  rpcbind
> > 123/udp   open  ntp
> > 137/udp   open  netbios-ns
> > 138/udp   open  netbios-dgm
> > 518/udp   open  ntalk
> > 784/udp   open  unknown
> > 32768/udp open  omad
> >
> > Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.897 seconds
> >
> >
> > As suspected nothing blocks port 518/udp :-/
> >
> > Any other idea of how to get that %@^&^ talk program to run properly? :-)
> >
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > Didier.
> >
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