From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 03:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from righi.ml.org (RIGHI.DF.UNIBO.IT [137.204.49.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19272 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 03:20:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from riccardo@righi.ml.org) Received: from localhost (riccardo@localhost) by righi.ml.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA29749; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:26:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from riccardo@righi.ml.org) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:26:55 +0100 (CET) From: Riccardo Veraldi To: Steve Howe cc: Ruslan Ermilov , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: talk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is possible that it is a problem with firewalling if you have firewall enabled maybe that there is a default rule for avoid land attacks from outside and this rule forbid connection to user@localhost so that you are forced to talk user@hostname.domain. just remove this firewall rule Rick On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Steve Howe wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message