[Gllug] ntalk

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Paul Brazier wrote:

> I'm needing something to enable me to talk to someone when we're both
> logged in via ssh to a remote server. I've looked at talk/ntalk but it
> seems (documentation is a bit sparse) that you need portmap running to
> use it, but I've disabled this for security reasons.
>
> Is it risk-free to run portmap if I restrict it totally for local use
> only or is even this unadvisable (the server is connected directly to
> the internet)?
>
> Also is there some better tool that anyone can recommend that does the
> same thing? (commandline chatting to someone else logged in to the same
> server).

It's not ideal, and it's only any good if you two are the only people on the
machine, but I've been known to use wall for this :-)

> --
> Paul

Cheers
Richard


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