On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Chris Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] > > > I intend to orphan socat in the next few weeks and would like someone to > adopt the package as it is still useful to many. I no longer have the time > nor motivation/need to continue to maintain it, therefore I am formally > requesting its adoption.
Do you intend to help mentoring ? Bastien > > > Description-en: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer > Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams > and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes, > devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw, > UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different > modes for interprocess communication and many more options. > . > It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), > as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets, > as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect > TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively > secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell > scripts inside network connections. Socat supports sctp as of 1.7.0. > > > Thanks, > Chris > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
