On 9 February 2014 11:09, Chris Taylor <ctay...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > Unfortunately, due to a lack of time, motivation/interest I am > requesting an adopter for socat. > > I am willing to sponsor the first few uploads if a non-DD would like to > take over. > > Long description is: > > 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. >
I also find socat very valuable. Is it ok if I pick it's maintenance up? -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhlugrvcvyjohjy3wnei6t+4rvvs6c28umc+xbyptlgzg...@mail.gmail.com