Hi Geoffrey,
Sorry I didn't get back to you when I solved it!
All it took was to put 'ALL: localhost' in my hosts.allow file, because
I had put 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file :-)
Then I connected with myself in two xterm windows :-)
And I know alot of people still have their computers named 'localhost'
so when not using 'talk' with anyone, will just # out that line in my
'hosts.allow' file.
Now to get 'ftp' to work..... it is enabled in the inetd.conf file...
but when I try it in an xterm window,
it comes right back with 'connected to localhost.'
and it stays that way for about 20 seconds before giving me
'421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.'
So, does that mean it works, or not?
Karen
Geoffrey Croxson wrote:
>
> At 06:50 6/07/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Thanks, Geoffrey, for you reply.
>
> Karen, see below, from the Oracle - well part of, seen as Mandrake is based
> on RH, seems there would be an update to fix this too.. if Mandrake does
> not have it, check out RH site for it, as will work if nothing is changed,
> but u might want to email the list to see what the mandrake programmers think,
>
> > If you are using talk, both people on local machine, and it does not
> > connect, but has on the screen
> >
> > [No connection yet]
> > [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
> >
>
> If this is redhat 6.0, there is an updated talk daemon on their errata
> page which should fix this.
>
> Anton
>
> Regards
>
> Geoffrey Croxson
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