Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:58:30 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: talk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118015123.1308A-100000@abc.xyz.net> In-Reply-To: <19981118124132.A4241@ucb.crimea.ua>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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)? i'm sorry, i don't understand. the man page says: talk person [ttyname] and it says that person is just the login name, and that you only have to use the longer forms, ie - user@host, host!user, host:user ... if the person is on another host. but i'm talking about users on the same host. the manpage does say that you should reply with "talk your_name@your_machine" ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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