Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

[Frank Barknecht <barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>]

Igor Grobman hat gesagt: // Igor Grobman wrote: (igor@digicron.com):

> > 
> > So my question is:
> > How can I be talked at my local Debian-machine??
> 
> 
> You need to set your hostname to the one that resolves  into your ip address.  
> For example node32.yourprovider.com  This can be done by modifying /etc/hosts 
> each time you connect, or by using hostname command (and running it as root).  
> Running 'hostname node32.yourprovider.com' will set your default hostname to 
> the above.

I tried this now, but it didn't seem to work. Instead I couldn't open my local
display anymore for xterms and stuff, after I had changed the hostname as root.
Isn't there another way?

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