[svlug] Help getting talk to work please

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya mike

> >         This is because the console window is getting all the talk
> > requests.  Simply type "mesg n" before you run X.
> >

> Maybe my testing it flawed though. To test I log into another machine on
> the internet. I then try to talk to my home machine. In the shell window
> that I opened to get onto the other machine I do get a talk invitation.

if the two machines are in two different domains...you might have to 
allow it to talk to the other domains.....
	see /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny

please post the contents of these two files...
from both machines... and yeah...change the domain name if you like

have fun
alvin

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