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by **Alexander-Jase Davidso** » Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:28:05

Hi guys,

I ran 'talk' today on my freshly installed 4.4-release box, the thing keeps
on reporting "checking for invitation on caller's machine." I enabled ntalkd
in inetd.conf and it doesn't really ressolve the problem. I then try out
/usr/libexec/ntalkd and it reported something like "open socket on
non-socket" or something similar to that. Anyone knows what's the matter
with my installation?

by **Alexander-Jase Davidso** » Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:11:06

Quote:> Hi guys,

> I ran 'talk' today on my freshly installed 4.4-release box, the thing
keeps
> on reporting "checking for invitation on caller's machine." I enabled
ntalkd
> in inetd.conf and it doesn't really ressolve the problem. I then try out
> /usr/libexec/ntalkd and it reported something like "open socket on
> non-socket" or something similar to that. Anyone knows what's the matter
> with my installation?

Detailed description:
OCT 28 01:47:35 photon talkd [249]: recv: Socket operation on non-socket

by **Volker Sto** » Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:21:24

Quote:> I ran 'talk' today on my freshly installed 4.4-release box, the thing keeps
> on reporting "checking for invitation on caller's machine." I enabled ntalkd
> in inetd.conf and it doesn't really ressolve the problem. I then try out
> /usr/libexec/ntalkd and it reported something like "open socket on
> non-socket" or something similar to that. Anyone knows what's the matter
> with my installation?

Works here like a charm. Perhaps you did forget issuing
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
after modifying inetd.conf to restart inetd?
You cannot invoke talkd yourself, because ntalkd is only supposed to
be invoked from inetd, where it's open socket will indeed by a socket.
--

by **David Malo** » Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:51:26

>I ran 'talk' today on my freshly installed 4.4-release box, the thing keeps
>on reporting "checking for invitation on caller's machine." I enabled ntalkd
>in inetd.conf and it doesn't really ressolve the problem. I then try out
>/usr/libexec/ntalkd and it reported something like "open socket on
>non-socket" or something similar to that. Anyone knows what's the matter
>with my installation?

Check that inetd is running, if you chose a high security install then
daemons such as inetd are not run by default.

David.

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