From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 12:56:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156D837B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9 (hutch-933.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.33]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA27252; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:56:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <000f01c09c48$affdd440$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , , "Lowell Gilbert" References: <44itm5krt1.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: shell command to make tcp connection? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:55:25 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: ; Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: Re: shell command to make tcp connection? > ronald+20010318@klop.yi.org (Ronald Klop) writes: > > > Hello. > > > > I'm looking for a programm to use in a shell script to make a tcp > > connection. On another unix machine I ones used a programm called > > mconnect, but I can't find it on the freebsd base system nor in the > > ports collection. Is there something similar? If yes, what is the > > name of the programm? > > mconnect on Sun machines is intended for talking to smtp servers, but > it doesn't actually understand anything about smtp itself. As afar as > I can see, telnet(1) does everything mconnect does. > Check out netcat in the ports collection. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message