You can let other users connected to your machine via SSH chat with you and each other using the Terminal. This gives you convenience of real time dialog over a highly secure connection (and faster then various flooded chat networks).
It can be done via talk,a program installed under BSD but disabled by default. All you need is to change the inetd configuration database file:
% sudo pico /etc/inetd.confUncomment the "ntalk" line:
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd ntalkdAfter rebooting, to chat with a user connected to the same machine, just type:
% talk [username]Refer to the very easy talk manual ("man talk") to find out more details. Hope this helps...
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