Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:30:22 -0500 | Subject | Re: Socket Interface | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[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.
Unlike other OSes you may be familiar with (e.g. FreeBSD), there is no de facto standard distribution of kernel and apps -- there are half a dozen major players and hundreds of minor ones, three quarters of which are "Red Hat + some nifty add-on or service".
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.
If your Linux distribution is Debian-derived:
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/finger finger: /usr/bin/finger
So the package is called 'finger':
$ cd /var/tmp; apt-get source finger Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 29.2kB of source archives. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main bsd-finger 0.16-3 (dsc) [667B] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main bsd-finger 0.16-3 (tar) [24.6kB] Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main bsd-finger 0.16-3 (diff) [3894B] Fetched 29.2kB in 3s (9.4kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting bsd-finger in bsd-finger-0.16
If your distribution is not Debian-derived, I don't know how to get the source. Ask your vendor.
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