On Fri, 20 May 2005, [ISO-8859-2] Filip Rembia�kowski 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

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

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

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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