talk problem
Bill Webb
webb at bass.tcspa.ibm.com
Mon Nov 27 09:53:49 AEST 1989
> I am receiving the following message when I try to "talk root" or "talk ken"
> talk: aixbf01: Can't figure out network address.
> Does this ring any bells out there?
> --
> Ken Hall - Department Manager | Bellnet: (404) 894-5559
> Office of the Assoc. VP for Bus & Fin | Bitnet: khall at gtri01.gatech.edu
> Georgia Institute of Technology | Internet: ken at pyr.gatech.edu
>
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I'd say that for some reason your machine (I assume that its aixbf01)
isn't in its own /etc/hosts file. If you machine isn't networked then
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback aixbf01
into /etc/hosts. If you machine is networked then I'd suggest checking
to make sure that the right line is in /etc/hosts and doing a
ping aixbf01
to make sure that everything is ok in /etc/hosts. If everything
checks out ok I'd suggest making sure that the permissions on
/etc/hosts are ok, as /usr/bin/talk is not setuid, while a lot of
the other tools (ping, rsh, rlogin) are. That's about all I can
think of without more information.
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The above views are my own, not necessarily those of my employer.
Bill Webb (IBM AWD Palo Alto), (415) 855-4457.
UUCP: ...!uunet!ibmsupt!webb
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