From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 16:57:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from christel.heitec.net (christel.heitec.net [193.101.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0E137B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bdluevel@heitec.net) Received: from heitec.net (paladin.heitec.net [193.101.232.30]) by christel.heitec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11EFB8102; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:57:47 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3A93128B.A06A8A7A@heitec.net> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:57:47 +0100 From: Bernd Luevelsmeyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Klop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell command to make tcp connection? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ronald Klop wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm looking for a programm to use in a shell script to make a tcp > connection. On another unix machine I ones used a programm called > mconnect, but I can't find it on the freebsd base system nor in the > ports collection. Is there something similar? If yes, what is the > name of the programm? > > Greetings, Ronald. > > PS: I'm using FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE, but I don't think that's very > important for this question? Either use 'netcat' (port net/netcat), or use the portal filesystem ("options PORTAL" in the kernel script. I like the portal FS very much, it's such an elegant solution to have the network in the file system tree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message