Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!doorknob!wsd From: wsd@cs.brown.edu (Wm. Scott `Spot' Draves) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: talk Message-ID: Date: 24 Feb 90 00:01:57 GMT References: <25c8b46f.14b9@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <770.25cc8d2a@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 30 In-reply-to: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu's message of 5 Feb 90 01:14:33 GMT In article <770.25cc8d2a@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: In article <25c8b46f.14b9@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, sstanfie@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (skot) writes: > Help! > > I need to get talk (talkd) running on the NeXTs. It comes up with a cute > message: > You don't exist. Go away. > > I remember someone awhile back posting on how to do this, but it seems > that no one has ever gotten it to work. I want to use it to > talk between NeXT's and to other systems on the same net. Just as a wild guess, it might have something to do with not finding your name in the /etc/passwd file (if your system is running netinfo). You might have to modify the code so that it does get information from netinfo. -- Peter Murray pm8moper@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu 205 Hepburn Hall pm8moper@miamiu.bitnet Miami University pemurray@miavx1.bitnet 513/529-4944 murrayp@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu Close. You (and your tty) are not in the /etc/utmp file. Scott Draves Space... The Final Frontier wsd@cs.brown.edu uunet!brunix!wsd Box 2555 Brown U Prov RI 02912