On 03-Apr-2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> So in what sense does the test 'not work'?

It fails (exits with a non-zero status), even though the ‘portmapper’
service is running.

> Does 'cat </dev/null >/dev/tcp/localhost/111' produce any error
> message?

No.

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