[plug] Problems with talk

[Greg Gamble]

According to John Summerfield:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Greg Gamble wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   On my home machine running Slackware 3.5 (Linux 2.0.34) I can run
> >   talk quite happily. However on my boss's machine running Linux
> >   2.0.21 we get the message:
> > 
> >   [Error on read from talk daemon : Connection refused (111)]
> > 
> >   before it exits. On both machines (and I guess with practically
> >   all Linux boxes) we run the
> >   
> >   4.2 Berkeley Distribution       April 22, 1991
> > 
> >   version of talk. Any clues as to what's going wrong? ... or what
> >   to look at? ... I wasn't terribly enlightened by the manpage.
> 
> The message "Connection refused" generally means the daemon's not running.

Ah! ... yes, indeed I see that the daemon is in.talkd and it isn't
running on my boss's machine and it is on mine. How is this normally
initiated? A grep of /etc/rc.d/* didn't turn up anything.

  Regards,
  Greg Gamble <gregg at maths.uwa.edu.au>