[RndTbl] talk/ntalk

[Trevor Cordes]

On 2020-04-29 Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
> IIRC, all the in.*d daemons (and in.talkd in particular) were meant
> to be run through inetd, and not directly as a standalone daemon.
> They would expect stdin and stdout to be already connected to a
> socket on startup.

Thanks!  That explains that... however, I was trying to run it through
systemd (which has a .socket file for it) as well as xinetd (but I had
to guess at a conf file for it because none are supplied anymore).
Both barfed with errors.

On 2020-04-29 athompso at athompso.net wrote:
> Setenforce 0, maybe?

Always!

> Also, utalk (https://utalk.ourproject.org/) has a peer-to-peer mode
> that doesn't require talkd/ntalkd.  And it compiled under CentOS 8 so
> should work for you, too.  (I can't even compile ntalk!) 

Thanks!  I'll check that out... yes, something newer/better supported
would seem to be the solution.