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Re: Talk problem. Just hangs with no reason...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Frayser)
Sat Aug 19 07:51:35 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 01:09:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Louis Frayser <frayser@earthlink.net>
To: Theophanis Kontogiannis-Guest Scientist <tkonto@isosun.ariadne-t.gr>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508171327.AA01065@isosun.ariadne-t.gr>
On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Theophanis Kontogiannis-Guest Scientist wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with talk.
> I have installed ntalkd and ytalk.
> Till now everything worked just fine. However for the last few weeks I
> have this problem.
>
> Whenever somebody wants to talk to someone else, the caller gets the message:
> "ringing <user>" and then "wait for connection" and just hangs.
> Ytalk gives no error messages.
> The user that is beeing called sees nothing on the screen and never
Have the user being called invoke mesg with a 'y':
mesg y
If messages are off you would get this behavior.
> knows that somebody wants to talk to him.
> But if the user being called issues a talk request for the user that
> calls him, a connection is established.
>
> This problem stops
> but only for a wille) if I reboot.
>
> This thing lives no error messages anyware.....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thank you for your time,
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