On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't seem to be able to use talk at all. Every attempt > just gives the error message: > > [Couln't bind to control socket : cannot assign requested address (99)]
I experienced something similar. I *think* it was caused by changes to the 1.3.* kernel (when they changed the /proc filesystem). This was my problem: I assigned my machine some hostname, then connected to my PPP or SLIP server which would assign me a different IP address (and hostname). This conflict was what was confusing and killing talk. I *think* that with earlier kernels, talk would function correctly even if the hostname assigned to the machine, and the hostname assigned by the PPP/SLIP server was different. The fix: if you are assigned the same IP address every time by your PPP/SLIP server, put the hostname for that address in /etc/hostname and reboot. If you are assigned a different one each time, then, once you find out what it is, login as root and do: echo ASSIGNED_HOSTNAME > /proc/hostname (note: you can only assign the hostname this way with the latest 1.3.* kernels) Actually, I'm not 100% sure if it's /proc/hostname or /proc/SOMETHING/hostname as I'm not on that machine right now to look. But if you look around the /proc filesystem, you should find it. Then you must log out and back in and then talk should work. At least it did for me. Regards, Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
