From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 03:13:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netvisor.hu (mmtp86.mit.bme.hu [152.66.81.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18267 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from szoli@netvisor.hu) Received: from localhost (szoli@localhost) by netvisor.hu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA10395; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:08:17 +0100 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:08:16 +0100 (CET) From: Memphisto X-Sender: szoli@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu To: Steve Howe cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: talk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id DAA18405 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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: ... He's curious what's the error message and what have you got if you issue the hostname command maybe there's some problem with the netconfiguration. So please, issue both talk _someone_ and /bin/hostname and send back the results. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyén Zoltán AKA Memphisto It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up. szoli@netvisor.hu But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid? MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR And please avoid Necrosoft Widows To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message