From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 19:55:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9851837B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:55:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 15467 invoked by uid 100); 21 Feb 2001 03:55:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14995.15404.696263.57091@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:55:24 -0600 To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell command to make tcp connection? In-Reply-To: <77984806@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bernd Luevelsmeyer types: > Ronald Klop wrote: > > 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? > 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. While I agree completely about having the network in the file system name space, my copy of LINT says: # NB: The NULL, PORTAL, UMAP and UNION filesystems are known to be # buggy, and WILL panic your system if you attempt to do anything with # them. They are included here as an incentive for some enterprising # soul to sit down and fix them. Have you by chance fixed the portal file system? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message