From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 02:47:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA16104 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA16058 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05392; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:41:32 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:41:32 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Steve Howe Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: talk Message-ID: <19981118124132.A4241@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Howe , freebsd-questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.15i In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Howe on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:35:02AM -0900 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 01:35:02AM -0900, Steve Howe wrote: > > i don't know if the talk program is wrong, > or the talk manpage, or me. > > according to the manpage, i should be able to say > > $ talk username > > to talk to anyone one the same machine. > but in practice, this doesn't work for me, > i have to say > > $ talk username@localhost > > for things to work. who's right, and who's wrong? > > 2.2.7 ... Both talk and its manpage are right, and you are wrong ;-) What does `talk username' tell you? What is your hostname (according to /bin/hostname)? Best regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message