I'm not sure if this is a bug or not so I'm not reporting it as one yet. 1. Both ytalk and talk work talking on the same machine. 2. Neither ytalk nor talk will talk to other machines. 3. talk just sits (no talk request is transmitted), ytalk prints an
find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused 4. mesg has been set to `y', so that's not it. 5. I can receive talk requests from other machines, but cannot accept them. 6. The machines I am trying to talk to are an OSF/1 2.1 machine, a Solaris 2.4 machine, and a Linux box running RedHat 3.0. The RedHat box also has the same problem. Either I'm clueless or something is wrong with Linux talk. I'm aware of the various flavors of talk, but ytalk should be able to talk to most of them. Actually, Linux `talk' should be able to talk to all common flavors of talk. Dan -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]