On 03/07/2013 02:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 01:57 PM, John Beranek wrote:
>>> On 06/03/2013 20:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple TCP
>>>> character echo server. No such animal in Centos, and after a bit of
>>>> digging I find this refers to Netcat6 which seems to be a dead app? Is
>>>> it available as an rpm somewhere for Centos? My searching is coming up
>>>> empty. Or just about any service that I can start on one system and
>>>> connect from another that would perform this simple echo test.
>>> nc on CentOS 6 has -4 and -6 options for this.
>> What rpm? I tried a 'yum whatprovides nc' and got nothing.
> Is that a trick question? Try:
> yum info nc
>
> 'yum search nc' would be the first thing to try, but you have to sort
> through a lot of partial-match cruft.
>
ARGH!!! <picture of me bashing my head on my desk>
I only searched for nc6 (per the readme) then went a googling and found
references to nc, but never went back to look for it :(
too rushed. Got deadlines tomorrow and things are not working as they
should.
but then what else is new?
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