Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 21:14 +0800, Daniel Veillard a écrit : > 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 > .... http://thesmithfam.org/blog/2006/05/23/bash-socket-programming-with-devtcp-2/ > in any case, we can keep it, but moving it out of the "standard" > group definitely makes sense ! +1 telnet is easier, but that's a task that do not happen so often, and people who are able to perform it are also fully able to find the tool for that ( and nc is better than telnet on this point, as this permit more ) -- Michael Scherer -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel