I rembered the PATH variable and googled it and found echo so that is taken
care of and I unpacked with make and make install but I am just lost. it
seems nc and netcat are two differing programs. ACK!
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting lost. I just d/l netcat but am unsure of where to unpack it to
> so that it will be usable. I am so sorry I'm being a hastle.
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hmmmmm.... nc isn't on my system I even ran apt-get update and tried
>> apt-get install.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> then I suppose I'll use netcat. I suppose I put 'nc- p 5050' in a file
>>> somewhere. Could someone tell me which file?
>>> funny.... reading the man page for nc (trying to figure out how to get it
>>> to work) was a hoot! the copyright section is rather entertaining. check it
>>> out!
>>>
>>> here is the excerpt I was talking about:
>>>
>>> COPYRIGHT
>>> Netcat is entirely my own creation, although plenty of other
>>> code was
>>> used as examples. It is freely given away to the Internet
>>> community in
>>> the hope that it will be useful, with no restrictions except
>>> giving
>>> credit where it is due. No GPLs, Berkeley copyrights or any of
>>> that
>>> nonsense. The author assumes NO responsibility for how anyone
>>> uses it.
>>> If netcat makes you rich somehow and you're feeling generous, mail
>>> me a
>>> check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network,
>>> get a
>>> life. Always ski in control. Comments, questions, and patches to
>>> hob‐
>>> bit@avian.org.
>>>
>>> NOTES
>>> Some port names in /etc/services contain hyphens -- netcat
>>> currently
>>> will not correctly parse those unless you escape the hyphens with
>>> back‐
>>> slashes (e.g. "netcat localhost 'ftp\-data'").
>>>
>>> BUGS
>>> Efforts have been made to have netcat "do the right thing" in
>>> all its
>>> various modes. If you believe that it is doing the wrong thing
>>> under
>>> whatever circumstances, please notify me and tell me how you
>>> think it
>>> should behave. If netcat is not able to do some task you
>>> think up,
>>> minor tweaks to the code will probably fix that. It provides a
>>> basic
>>> and easily-modified template for writing other network
>>> applications,
>>> and I certainly encourage people to make custom mods and send
>>> in any
>>> improvements they make to it. Continued feedback from the Internet
>>> com‐
>>> munity is always welcome!
>>>
>>> EXAMPLES
>>> For several netcat recipes, please see
>>> /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.gz
>>> and /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.Debian.gz.
>>>
>>> AUTHOR
>>> This manual page was written by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> and
>>> Robert
>>> Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>, cribbing heavily from Netcat's README
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Netcat was written by a guy we know as the Hobbit <
>>> hobbit@avian.org>.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Squid is a proxy server found at http://www.squid-cache.org/
>>>> I would guess that apt-get thinks of it as squid-cache.
>>>>
>>>> Unless you already have Squid (doesn't sound like it) already set up -
>>>> this is a bit over the top just to let port 5050 past the firewall +
>>>> NAT.
>>>> If you have a home network, Squid is a good way to control access to
>>>> the Internet. If you have one computer on a broadband connection, then
>>>> just opening port 5050 should be enough, add forwarding if you have
>>>> NAT setup. Squid is a heavy service, other tunneling tools exist like
>>>> nc (aka netcat) or ssh or stunnel that will be much easier to set up.
>>>>
>>>> Once you are set up, you should check to see which service you have
>>>> listening at port 5050 with something like "netstat -ta" or wireshark,
>>>> etc
>>>>
>>>> Happy Holidays - Ed
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