[RndTbl] talk/ntalk

Gerald Brandt gbr at majentis.com
Tue Apr 28 22:20:47 CDT 2020


If it compiles and runs, and you just want it to start, can't you throw 
it into crontab with @start or @reboot (whichever one it is).


Gerald


On 2020-04-28 10:16 p.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
> Has anyone gotten talk or ntalk working on a modern distro in the last few
> years?
>
> I can't get talk to work in Fedora 30 no matter what I do.  It installs
> with a systemd setup but it won't start that way.  I tried doing it the
> old xinetd way, but that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> Seems impossible?
>
> Any other ideas for extremely simple command line 2-person chat that uses
> no external servers (no I don't want to setup my own irc server!
> hopefully!)?
>
> Don't tell me I'll have to write my own...
>
> Thanks!
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