Hello, Geert,

on 20.05.2005, 21:30 you wrote to amanda-users AT amanda DOT org:

GU> On Fri, 20 May 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Filip Rembia³kowski wrote:
>> At 05/18/05 23:20, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> > FR> Standard daemontools setup does not assume setting up UDP services. So
>> > it lacks
>> > FR> an udp super-server. But many people I asked mentioned netcat: FR>
>> > http://netcat.sourceforge.net/. Also the ucspi-tcp page mentions it.
>> > FR> And, LBNL, netcat is packaged for most major Linux distros.
>> > FR> So I use it for amanda server when I don't want to fire up (x)inetd.
>> > 
>> > Ok again, I just substituted "nc" with "netcat".
>> 
>> "netcat" is the package name, "nc" is the binary

GU> It depends. On Debian both `nc' and `netcat' work.

GU> On Red Hat 9, `nc' is part of NEdit. Of course I put the real `nc' first in 
my
GU> $PATH ;-)

Phew ...

Suse also uses /usr/bin/netcat, and "nc" does not work.
I'll add a note for that.

Best regards,
Stefan G. Weichinger.

mailto://sgw AT amanda DOT org