Newsgroups: linux.redhat.misc, comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 2001-11-28 20:15:11 PST

I can't use talk in my newly installed RedHat 7.2. When I issue talk I get :

Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused.

Please, somebody helps me. The following are my relevant info:

$ uname -a
Linux 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

$ mesg
is y

$ ps -eaf | grep inet
root       901     1  0 10:39 ?        00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse-pidfile /va

$ 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
}