Heads up: nc replaced by nmap ncat

Petr Ĺ abata contyk at redhat.com
Mon Jul 23 14:03:00 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:07:30AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 05:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> >When a libvirt client connects to a remote machine, the libvirt client
> >sends the "nc -U ..." command over ssh.  So every libvirt on any
> >distro that might connect to a Rawhide libvirtd must be changed to
> >send a "socat ..." command instead.
> 
> Alternatively, perhaps a compatibility script called 'nc' could
> execute the appropriate socat command?

That sounds like an acceptable temporary solution until ncat
supports UNIX sockets too.

-P
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