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

[rpjday]

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Randy Dees wrote:

> 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.

ah, now this is odd.  although i've enabled all three of telnet,
talk and ntalk thru xinetd, netstat shows the entry for telnet
in "LISTEN" mode (and telnet works nicely, thanks -- no subtle
digs about ssh, please).

but both talk and ntalk, although they show up in the output of
netstat, have a blank "State" field at the end of the line.
i'm not sure what this means.  that they're both running, but
neither are listening?

their xinetd config looks similar to telnet, and telnet works fine.
ok, so i'm still baffled.  any more hints?  and, yes, i've restarted
xinetd to make sure it picks up any changes in the xinetd.d config
files.

rday