Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:26:55 +0100 (CET) From: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org> To: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: talk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811181225010.29739-100000@righi.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981118015123.1308A-100000@abc.xyz.net>
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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
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