Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 03/07/2013 02:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> >> wrote: >>> On 03/07/2013 01:57 PM, John Beranek wrote: >>>> On 06/03/2013 20:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>>> In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple >>>>> TCP character echo server. No such animal in Centos, and after a bit of >>>>> digging I find this refers to Netcat6 which seems to be a dead app? >>>>> Is it available as an rpm somewhere for Centos? My searching is coming >>>>> up empty. Or just about any service that I can start on one system and >>>>> connect from another that would perform this simple echo test. >>>> nc on CentOS 6 has -4 and -6 options for this. >>> What rpm? I tried a 'yum whatprovides nc' and got nothing. >> Is that a trick question? Try: >> yum info nc >> >> 'yum search nc' would be the first thing to try, but you have to sort >> through a lot of partial-match cruft. >> > ARGH!!! <picture of me bashing my head on my desk> > > I only searched for nc6 (per the readme) then went a googling and found > references to nc, but never went back to look for it :( > > too rushed. Got deadlines tomorrow and things are not working as they > should. > > but then what else is new? Oh, come on, none of *us* have these problems, or others, like, say, your manager's boss, standing there as you try to get the new guy set up with xming and putty-cac, not putty, and they've got a meeting in 2 minutes.... mark