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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!fox From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) Subject: Getting Talk to work... Message-ID: <1993Oct30.001040.17323@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1993 00:10:40 GMT Lines: 30 Hey. I am running NetBSD-0.9. I can't get talk to work locally (or otherwise). When I try it (eg if someone else is logged in over my slip line), it tells me that the host is unknown. I have the name of the machine in my myname, and I have the resolv.conf set up as well as the hosts file. How do I get the machine to know who it is? eg how do I get the loopback address in hosts to work? Based on observations of telnetting here and there, I don't even think the machine ever looks at the hosts file.... When I boot the machine, I get a few 'localhost: bad value''s... Does this help? Please. Help me through these desperate times. Thanks, Colin. -- fox@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Colin Bradley McGill University, Montreal Quality of bubble varies directly with soap solution.