comps' "standard" group spring cleaning?

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:35:46PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le vendredi 11 janvier 2013 à 11:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> > Le Jeu 10 janvier 2013 23:33, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> > 
> > > -      <packagereq>telnet</packagereq>
> > 
> > Nowadays it's commonly used to test if a port is open, not to log in
> > remotely somewhere. What will replace it in this role?
> 
> why not bash :) 
> 
> $ cat < /dev/tcp/localhost/22
> SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.1

  But for remote

$ telnet damn-web_server 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
....

 in any case, we can keep it, but moving it out of the "standard"
group definitely makes sense !

Daniel

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