Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:06:47 -0500 | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port |
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On 07/29/2012 03:40 AM, Milton Miller wrote: > [adding Rob as Doc maintanier] > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 about 11:08:16 -0000, Dirk Gouders wrote: >> Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: >>>> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders >>>>> <gouders@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. >> OK, I tried that in the attached patch. >> I'm not sure if every exeption needs to/should be documented, though. >> >> >From 3cdeac3e814471053129145c5fa8391acb365fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> >> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:32:49 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] netconsole.txt: non-BSD versions of nc(1) require '-p' >> switch >> >> Gentoo for example uses non-BSD versions of nc(1) which require >> the '-p' switch to specify the listening port. >> >> --- >> Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 3 ++- >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Did this ever resolve to a specific recommended patch? The one at the start of the thread:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.3/01995.html
Apparently isn't it...?
Rob -- GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one.
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