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Authored by: robg on Oct 15, '03 10:00:33AM
A reader sent this in as a new hint, but it really belongs here as a related comment:
mici stated that after you uncomment the ntalk line in then inetd.conf file, you must restart the machine.

I have another way to open the port that inetd listens for talk. Following this you won't have to restart the machine to enable talk.
[cbaldwin@MoonUnit1 ~] $ ps -auxw | grep inetd
root       411   0.0  0.0     1308    108  ??  Ss   Sat01AM   0:00.01 inetd
root       414   0.0  0.0     1480    260  ??  Ss   Sat01AM   0:00.03 xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
This will give you the Process ID or pid. In this case it is 411. Now just type sudo kill -HUP 411 and enter your admin password when prompted. Talk is now enabled without a restart.

Hope this is helpful.

Corey Baldwin
-rob.

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