Friday, April 15, 2011

Enabling the talk daemon on Linux Fedora 14

The talk daemon is not installed by default in Fedora, but the client is. I've prepared instructions to help enabling the talk daemon on Fedora 14. Note that these instructions should work on most versions of Fedora and various flavors of Linux. The chkconfig command may vary from system to system. For example, on Ubuntu I think you have to use update-rc.d.

To install and enable the talk server, follow these simple steps:

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# yum install talk-server

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# chkconfig xinetd on

# chkconfig talk on

# chkconfig ntalk on

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# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start

to connect you have to do :

talk username@hostname

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