Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

[Mike Schmitz <mschmitz@coinet.com>]

On Aug 7, Frank Barknecht wrote
> 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?
> 

Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as is set
in hostname. Here is an example:


----- snip -----
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/ppp/ip-up: the command executed by pppd when IP comes up.
# Copyright 1994 John A. Phillips - john@linux.demon.co.uk
#
# Parameters:
#     $1 = network interface used (e.g. ppp0)
#     $2 = pathname of serial device file (e.g. /dev/modem or /dev/ttyS1)
#     $3 = device speed (e.g. 38400)
#     $4 = local address (e.g. 158.152.16.94)
#     $5 = remote address (e.g. 158.152.1.222)

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

NETDEVICE=$1
TTYDEVICE=`basename $2`
SPEED=$3
LOCAL_IP=$4
REMOTE_IP=$5
DATE=`date`             # set DATE = current time

# update the /etc/hosts file...
#
echo "#
# This file automatically generated by /etc/ppp/ip-up and should
# indicate the correct dynamically allocated IP address below.
#
# This file generated on $DATE
#
127.0.0.1               localhost
$LOCAL_IP               host.provider.com host" > /etc/hosts
----- snip -----

Replace the "host" entries with your hostname :-)>

HTH

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