On Thursday 07 April 2011 17:19:24 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system. When I > try > emerge telnet > , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. > > What am I doing wrong? Is there a telnet client on gentoo?
As others said there's more than one option, not forgetting netcat:
nc -t address <port>
However, you don't need to install anything if you don't want to, because
busybox contains a telnet client and daemon.
Just create a symlink from your /usr/local/bin/telnet to /bin/busybox:
# ln -s /bin/busybox /usr/local/bin/telnet
$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/telnet
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 30 12:24 /usr/local/bin/telnet -> /bin/busybox
$ telnet
BusyBox v1.17.4 (2010-12-26 22:07:56 GMT) multi-call binary.
Usage: telnet [-a] [-l USER] HOST [PORT]
Connect to telnet server
Options:
-a Automatic login with $USER variable
-l USER Automatic login as USER
Or just run:
$ busybox telnet
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Regards,
Mick
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