Re: Socket Interface

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 05:35:15 EST


On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote:

>
> [Eric Chen]
> > I have brought up a PC running Linux 6.2.
>
> There is no Linux 6.2. The newest version is a prerelease of 2.4.0.

I'll bet you a beer he's using RedHat :)

> In any case, I suggest you look at a client for the 'finger' protocol,
> which is just about as simple a TCP transaction as you can get. Note
> that the server is inetd-driven so has no networking code of its own.
> I can't think of a simple TCP daemon that *isn't* inetd-driven, though.

Put in your SRPMS CDROM :

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/SRPMS
rpm -ivh finger<tab>

cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpm -bp finger<tab>

The source in in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/finger<tab>

The <tab> is indeed the keyboard thing :)

        Igmar

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