On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:06:44PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote: > > > On 5 Mar 2015, at 12:42, Slawa Olhovchenkov <s...@zxy.spb.ru> wrote: > > > >> netcat - nc(1) - which can also work in the other direction and is > >> designed specifically for this purpose. > > > > nc(1) don't correctly work. > > It works for me for everything that I used to use telnet for > (connection testing, checking plain-text protocols, although > increasingly I have to use openssl s_client because few things speak > TCP without SSL), what cases does it not work for you?
In previos message -- silently return when telnet speak about used IP address and diagnostic messages. One simple command do many diagnostic information. > > nc don't work with unix socket. > > Okay, now you're changing your requirements - you first spoke of > remote equipment and network testing. However, UNIX domain sockets > appear as files in the filesystem, and we have a host of utilities > that are capable of interacting with files (unless they're > message-oriented, but then telnet doesn't help either). I am know only about telnet can connect to unix socket. > >>> How to connect to mpd control socket?! > >> > >> mpdcon from the command line, MPDroid from my mobile, or nc if you're a > >> masochist. > > > > MPDroid?! wut? Or you just don't know about mpd? > > The one that I'm familiar with is the music player daemon. The other common > use of the initalism is multiple personality disorder. If you mean something > else, then you should probably say what it is, rather than rely on other > people understanding some obscure term (hint: you're not doing yourself any > favours in justifying that this is a widespread requirement if people reading > your post can't even tell what the requirement is). > If you meant the mpd5 package then... well, if you're installing one thing > from packages then installing another is not really likely to be an issue. yes, mpd5. package can be already installed (time ago). and now connection broken. for diagnostic i am use telnet to mpd5 control socket. > Anyway, from your follow up to Gleb, it seems that your requirement > is a network testing tool for computers that are not connected to a > network? That seems like a sufficiently niche use that you don't > need to have things in the base system. Why not? And why before this is will be ok? _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
