On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > I need to test a variety of UNIX (not IP/INET) socket daemons for both > syntax and "are you running". > > Is there a program that can read-write to an arbitrary Unix-type socket in a > manner similar to NetCat or Telnet?
socat <http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/> can send data between, well, just about *anything*. Unix-domain sockets are among those things. (Downside: hideous command-line syntax.) -- `Tor employs several thousand editors who they keep in dank subterranean editing facilities not unlike Moria' -- James Nicoll
