Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754522Ab2HAOGx (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 10:06:53 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:43866 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754153Ab2HAOGw (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 10:06:52 -0400 Message-ID: <501937F7.2070600@landley.net> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:06:47 -0500 From: Rob Landley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Milton Miller CC: Dirk Gouders , Borislav Petkov , Cong Wang , Jesse Barnes , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [RFC] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2376 Lines: 60 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 writes: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: >>>> Cong Wang writes: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders >>>>> 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 ` 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 >> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/