[TriLUG] ack ... "talk" doesn't work on seawolf

[Randy Dees]

And behold, rpjday spake these words on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:28:15AM -0400:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Tom Bryan wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 19 August 2001 04:47 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > > 2) talk service on via chkconfig and xinetd: check
> >
> > /etc/xinetd.d/talk or /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk?  Since
> > ls -l /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 May 28 13:44 /usr/sbin/in.talkd -> in.ntalkd
> > I'm not sure what it means for one of these services to be
> > enabled and for the other to be disabled.  Have you tried setting
> > them both to "disable = no"?
> 

netstat -an | grep 517  # talk  (UDP)
and 
netstat -an | grep 518  # ntalk (UDP)

to determine if either port is being listened to.

Are you sure you want both running?  I wouldn't, but that's me.

Good luck.