chat

[happy-linux]

can anyone plz tell me how can i chat with other system within network if i know the IP adderess of that particular system or how can i send message (i dont know the username and password, ofcourse)


how can i use wall command without login into that computer?

[Touchtecservers]

I suggest setting up a Jabber server, or some such then using Pidgin to chat IM stylee

[waterhead]

There is also the Linux talk daemon
talk - Linux Command - Unix Command

[happy-linux]

There is also the Linux talk daemon
talk - Linux Command - Unix Command[/url]

i hv checked my connection to that particular system, and it is ok.
but when i typed talk command with arguments required , it showed :

no connection yet


error on read from talk daemon.......



is there any other way, i m using RHEL5.

[b2bwild]

How about your Local IRC server

[waterhead]

You do need to install the talk-server, as only the talk-client is installed by default. I still couldn't get it to work with my current PCs, Fedora 10 and Mythbuntu 8.04. It may be because of incompatible versions of talk. If you are using the same distro on all PCs, you shouldn't run into that problem.

Here's what I installed on my Fedora 10 PC, RHEL should be similar:

talk-0.17-30.2.4.i386 : Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting.
talk-server-0.17-30.2.4.i386 : The talk server for one-on-one Internet chatting.

And for dependency, it installed this:
xinetd-2.3.14-21.fc10.i386 : A secure replacement for inetd

I did have this working a while back, when I was still using Fedora 8.