On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:35:46PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 11:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : > > Le Jeu 10 janvier 2013 23:33, Bill Nottingham a écrit : > > > > > - <packagereq>telnet</packagereq> > > > > Nowadays it's commonly used to test if a port is open, not to log in > > remotely somewhere. What will replace it in this role? > > why not bash :) > > $ cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/22 > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.1 But for remote $ telnet damn-web_server 80 GET / HTTP/1.0 .... in any case, we can keep it, but moving it out of the "standard" group definitely makes sense ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel