Talk daemon and Socket operation on non-socket

[Br0kan]

I'm having problems getting the "talk" function running.

I successfully installed talk and talk-server with

yum install talk*

I tried to use the talk and got an "Error on read talk daemon"

Thus I tried to start the talk daemon by going to /usr/sbin and ./in.talkd only to recieve

Socket operation on non-socket

To summarize my issue is:

1. talk says I need a daemon
2. daemon says "Socket operation on non-socket"

[code_astronomer]

did you do yum install talk?
or yum install talk-server?

I used to have talk server installed, but removed it. I'm pretty sure I used yum install talk-server

Make sure it is running too.

[Br0kan]

I did yum install talk* which installed both talk and talk-server

my problem is getting it running

[code_astronomer]

hmm...I can't get it to work now.
mine displays the message: [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
and does nothing.

I did yum install talk and then yum install talk-server because it didn't install talk-server the first time :S

It does say in the services list 'xinetd is required for this service.'
Do you have that installed?