How to disable talk service

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • talk
  • talk-server

Issue

How to disable talk service

Resolution

  • Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.
  • Talk does not have Daemon of its own. It is managed by Xinetd service. It can be disabled from the configuration file /etc/xinetd.d/talk
service talk
{
        flags                   = IPv4
        disable                 = yes  -----This one
        socket_type             = dgram
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = nobody
        group                   = tty
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.talkd
}

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