On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: > Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders > > <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote: > >> Hi Jesse, > >> > >> I would like to ask you to check if the documentation of "nc" in > >> netconsole.txt is still correct. I tried two different netcat packages > >> and both require "-p" to specify the listening port. I am wondering if > >> that changed after the use of "nc" has been documented. > > > > On Fedora 16, `nc -u -l <port number>` works fine. > > Thanks for checking that. > > If the information I found is correct, Fedora uses OpenBSD's nc > codebase. The two netcat packages I tested on a Gentoo system differ in > requiring the -p switch for the port specification.
So say exactly that in the doc: that the *BSD's version of nc doesn't need the port number specified with '-p' and you're covered. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
