ken@pyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Hall) (11/14/89)
I am receiving the following message when I try to "talk root" or "talk ken" on my aix 1.1 ps/2: 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@gtri01.gatech.edu Georgia Institute of Technology | Internet: ken@pyr.gatech.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H de Figueiredo) (11/17/89)
[ Sorry for posting, but couldn't convice mailer! ]
> talk: aixbf01: Can't figure out network address.
I've had this problem.
Run uname -a.
If aixbf01 does not appear in the output, then you'll have to change your
machine name to aixbf01.
This is done with chparm (see manual).
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1root@blender.UUCP (Herb Peyerl) (11/21/89)
lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H de Figueiredo) writes: >> talk: aixbf01: Can't figure out network address. > I've had this problem. > Run uname -a. > If aixbf01 does not appear in the output, then you'll have to change your >machine name to aixbf01. > This is done with chparm (see manual). Seems like rather a silly fix. I'm running AIX-RT 2.2.1 and have come up with this problem occasionally.. Basically you have to run TCP/IP for talk to work. This may already be obvious. In fact just this morning, while attempting to use "talk" I got this message. Then I realized I had taken /etc/rc.tcpip out of my /etc/rc file last week. I just ran up the TCP daemons and everything is working fine. I'm not hooked up to any actual tcp networks. I just do an: /etc/route add host blender localhost 0 in my /etc/rc.tcpip file. This set's up the routing and everything is happy. I suggest you RTFM for the TCP/IP setup. It's fairly simple. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: herb@blender.UUCP || ...calgary!xenlink!blender!{herb||root} ICBM: 51 03 N / 114 05 W || Apollo Sys_admin, Novatel Communications "The other day, I...... No wait..... That wasn't me!" <Steven Wright>
webb@bass.tcspa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) (11/27/89)
> 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@gtri01.gatech.edu > Georgia Institute of Technology | Internet: ken@pyr.gatech.edu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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