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On Thursday 07 April 2011 17:19:24 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Gentoo! |
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> I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system. When I |
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> try |
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> emerge telnet |
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> , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. |
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> What am I doing wrong? Is there a telnet client on gentoo? |
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As others said there's more than one option, not forgetting netcat: |
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nc -t address <port> |
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However, you don't need to install anything if you don't want to, because |
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busybox contains a telnet client and daemon. |
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Just create a symlink from your /usr/local/bin/telnet to /bin/busybox: |
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# ln -s /bin/busybox /usr/local/bin/telnet |
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$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/telnet |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 30 12:24 /usr/local/bin/telnet -> /bin/busybox |
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$ telnet |
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BusyBox v1.17.4 (2010-12-26 22:07:56 GMT) multi-call binary. |
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Usage: telnet [-a] [-l USER] HOST [PORT] |
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Connect to telnet server |
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Options: |
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-a Automatic login with $USER variable |
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-l USER Automatic login as USER |
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Or just run: |
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$ busybox telnet |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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