Hello, I have been having problems with talk and ytalk under Linux. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Both programs work fine when trying to talk to somebody else on the local machine. When trying to use talk or ytalk to talk to somebody on a remote system, neither program works. Talk just locks up displaying "[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]". Ytalk complains of " find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused" and then complains "sendit: recv() failed Connection refused". On IRC #linux, somebody told me that there might be a problem in /etc/hosts, but did not know what the problem might be. I am using PPP and have dynamic IP addressing. My system also is UUCP-connected, so for the purposes of things like hostname, it is known as "complete.org" (the domain name used for news, mail, etc.) Everything seems to work OK -- IRC, News, etc. But not talk. So I hope that somebody here can help me. I have tried setting localhost to 127.0.0.0 but that seems to break more things than it fixes. People have told me that everything else is supposed to be 127.0.0.0 so I did that. Here is my /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.0 complete.org complete 127.0.0.1 localhost # These below are rarely used. 127.0.0.0 centre.complete.org centre 127.0.0.0 mail.complete.org mail 127.0.0.0 news.complete.org news # Some other irrelevant stuff trimmed. My /etc/hostname contains the word "complete". This file is fed to the hostname program at boot time by using hostname --file. -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming | Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490 w/ your modem. -- John Goerzen | System administrator & owner, The Communications Custom programming | Centre and Complete Network (complete.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Free Unix shell access, 316-367-8490 w/ your modem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
