2012-08-02 19:57:45

by Jan Engelhardt

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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port


On Friday 2012-07-27 08:35, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
>index 8d02207..ffe30a7 100644
>--- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
>+++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
>@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied
> address.
>
> The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>',
>-'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd.
>+'nc -l -u -p <port>' or syslogd.

While at it, could you add

socat udp-recv:<port> -

since netcat is _really_ archaic ;-)