[TAG] Where to send more 2c TIPS?

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:40:17PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
[snip]
> So, after all of that - will the stuff promised by the Bash man page
> work?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ben at Fenrir:~$ su -c 'thttpd -d ~ben/www'
> ben at Fenrir:~$ cat /dev/tcp/localhost/80
> cat: /dev/tcp/localhost/80: Not a directory
> ben at Fenrir:~$ nc /dev/tcp/localhost/80
> /dev/tcp/localhost/80: forward host lookup failed: Unknown host
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hm. Maybe I'm not understanding what they mean by a TCP connection.
> Anyone care to take it past this point?

I asusme you are really Debianized. So quoting from
/usr/share/doc/bash/README.Debian.gz:

	9. Why is bash configured with --disable-net-redirections?

	    It can produce completely unexpected results. This kind of
	    feature should not be part of a shell but a special. tool. And
	    that tool has existed for years already, it's called netcat.

Regards,

Kapil.

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