[techtalk] talk on RedHat 6.2

[Olivier Tharan]

Le 12 octobre 2000 a 13:01, m20bi a écrit :
> Logged on as guest on tty2 and tty3. Issued 'talk guest
> tty2' from tty3.  Talk stalled with 'checking for invitation on caller's
> machine.' Got out of talk with Ctrl-C and then tried 'talk guest tty3' from
> tty2. Same error. Nothing shows up in the /var/log/messages file.

The 'stall' is normal, talk on your side is actually waiting for the
other side to answer your talk request (as when the phone rings). On the
other side, a message such as the following should appear:

	Message from Talk_Daemon at chloe at 20:21 ...              
	talk: connection requested by olive at chloe.olivenet.net.  
	talk: respond with:  talk olive at chloe.olivenet.net       

then you can answer on the other tty.

You can also try 'ytalk' which is a better talk (ytalk -x to avoid
getting a screenful of windows).

olive
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		Olivier Tharan, <olive at minet.net>

I simply trew off the whole HP junk and replaced it by working Gnu
versions where possible