Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> writes: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Dirk Gouders wrote: >> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dirk Gouders >> > <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote: >> >> Hi Jesse, >> >> >> >> I would like to ask you to check if the documentation of "nc" in >> >> netconsole.txt is still correct. I tried two different netcat packages >> >> and both require "-p" to specify the listening port. I am wondering if >> >> that changed after the use of "nc" has been documented. >> > >> > On Fedora 16, `nc -u -l <port number>` works fine. >> >> Thanks for checking that. >> >> If the information I found is correct, Fedora uses OpenBSD's nc >> codebase. The two netcat packages I tested on a Gentoo system differ in >> requiring the -p switch for the port specification. > > So say exactly that in the doc: that the *BSD's version of nc doesn't > need the port number specified with '-p' and you're covered.
OK, I tried that in the attached patch. I'm not sure if every exeption needs to/should be documented, though. Dirk >From 3cdeac3e814471053129145c5fa8391acb365fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk Gouders <goud...@et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:32:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] netconsole.txt: non-BSD versions of nc(1) require '-p' switch Gentoo for example uses non-BSD versions of nc(1) which require the '-p' switch to specify the listening port. --- Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt index 8d02207..9a362f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ initialized and attempts to bring up the supplied dev at the supplied address. The remote host can run either 'netcat -u -l -p <port>', -'nc -l -u <port>' or syslogd. +'nc -l -u <port>' (BSD version of nc(1) e.g. Fedora), +'nc -l -u -p <port>' or syslogd. Dynamic reconfiguration: ======================== -- 1.7.8.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
