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From: andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: talk not working
Keywords: talk
Message-ID: <849@treehouse.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:31:19 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.044356.15079@deadzone.uucp>
Reply-To: treehouse!andyp@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com
Organization: The Treehouse
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In article <1991Apr23.044356.15079@deadzone.uucp> marcelo@deadzone.uucp (Marcelo Gallardo) writes:
>
>	I've got a problem that seems to have popped up after moving to
>	2.0.1. When I try to "talk" to anyone connected to my machine,
>	talk gives me a strange error message...
>
>	[deadzone]/usr/users/marcelo % talk root
>	This machine doesn't exist. Boy, am I confused!

Make sure you have the /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME set up correctly.
There are manual pages for each of them.  I've had the same problem and
I think that when one of them was missing, you get that error message.

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