Here and you can see that hostnamecorrectly. netsats's output is also looks like your's one. Unfortunatly I didn't install ytalk yet byt I think it worth to try because of lack of any other idea :)
------------------------------------------ crdlx2.sevinian:~$ netstat -a ....... udp 0 0 *:discard *:* udp 0 0 *:ntalk *:* udp 0 0 *:talk *:* udp 0 0 *:syslog *:* ------------------------------------------ Regards, Eugene On Sat, 10 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: > > > As I know in order to allow some service to work I should > > put corresponding string in /etc/hosts.allow and now it looks like : > > in.ftpd: ALL > > in.telnetd: ALL > > in.rlogind: ALL > > in.talkd: ALL > > in.fingerd: ALL > > > > However everything is working but 'talk'. It hangs with: > > [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]. > > > > What did I do wrong? Thank you in advance, > > I don't think hosts.allow works that way. > Example: > ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu > > Allows all hosts at domain foobar.edu except the machine named > terminalserver to access your system. > > Try ytalk instead of talk and see if you get an error to the effect "host > unknown". If you do the problem may be that your hostname isn't being set > at boot time. I had this problem once and, if I remember correctly, talk > froze at the point yours is but ytalk just returned the error I mentioned. > Is your hostname displayed at your prompt? If not and you haven't changed > the prompt in .bash_profile, your hostname isn't set. > > Also check netstat -a and see if there is a line like the following: > > udp 0 0 *:ntalk *:* > udp 0 0 *:talk *:* > > If not then the daemons aren't running. > > --Rick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene Sevinian ---------------------------- Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
