On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, John Goerzen wrote: > I have been having problems with talk and ytalk under Linux. Any help would > be greatly appreciated!
I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise, other talk daemons won't talk to you. If you are given a dynamic IP address by your ISP, then it almost certainly doesn't match. So, you must set the host name of your machine to match the given IP number after you establish your PPP/SLIP connection. You can set it with the "hostname" command. I have the following line in /etc/ppp/ip-up to do this for me automatically whenever I establish a PPP connection: /bin/hostname `/usr/bin/host $4 | head -1 | cut -f 2 -d " "` Also, reverse name lookup must be set up correctly by whomever is in charge of your domain (probably your ISP). Otherwise, you will not be able to initiate a talk connection, although I think you can still reply if someone else initiates the talk session with you. And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be incompatible with just about every other OS's talk that I've tried, including Linux. So, if you're trying to talk to someone on a Sun, you're probably SOL. It would be nice if someone would hack the talk that comes with Linux so that it could talk to Suns as well. Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
