From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: The talk daemon does not appear to work under xinetd. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit "/etc/xinetd.d" talk to allow it. > # cat /etc/xinetd.d/talk > # default: off > # description: The talk server accepts talk requests for chatting with users \ > # on other systems. > service talk > { > disable = no > socket_type = dgram > wait = yes > user = nobody > group = tty > server = /usr/sbin/in.talkd > } 2. Make sure everything in installed. > # rpm -qa | grep talk > talk-0.17-9 > talk-server-0.17-9 > # rpm -qa | grep xinetd > xinetd-2.1.8.9pre14-7 3. Restart xinetd. > # /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart > Stopping xinetd: [ OK ] > Starting xinetd: [ OK ] 4. Check to make sure it's all running: > # ps auxwww | grep xinetd > root 10854 0.0 0.7 2240 980 ? S 21:55 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid > # netstat -a | grep talk > udp 0 0 *:talk *:* > # /sbin/iptables -L > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination 5. Ok let's try and talk: > #talk tim > DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD[ Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused ]DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Additional info:
Do a "chkconfig ntalk on" instead, and you'll get what you want - "talk" is an older protocol doing almost the same thing in a more broken way. "talk" could probably be removed... reassigning.