From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752504Ab2G0JZA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:25:00 -0400 Received: from alice.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de ([193.175.197.63]:41129 "EHLO alice.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751565Ab2G0JY7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:24:59 -0400 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 alice.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de q6R9Otfa001533 From: Dirk Gouders To: Cong Wang Cc: Jesse Barnes , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] netconsole.txt: "nc" needs "-p" to specify the listening port In-Reply-To: (Cong Wang's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:02:53 +0800") References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:24:53 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Greylist: Sender succeeded STARTTLS authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (alice.et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de [192.168.0.63]); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:24:55 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Dirk