From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20823 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Mar 2003 02:45:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1443 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2003 02:45:17 -0000 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 22:46:37 -0800 From: Abhishek Amit To: Marco Mascherpa Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030316064637.GA7913@datalap.aamit.com> Mail-Followup-To: Marco Mascherpa , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200303170014.42266.m.mascherpa@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303170014.42266.m.mascherpa@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tcpdump and telnet on the liveCDs X-Archives-Salt: 52c93f30-8dab-4404-9d95-6a5204b080d4 X-Archives-Hash: 11e3c9347071e99414c0b0182a289de6 On 00:14 Mon 17 Mar , Marco Mascherpa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > hi everyone, > last week i was installing Gentoo on a brand new machine at work and i noticed > againg that tcpdump and the telnet client are not available in the liveCD's > environment. Why aren't they included? Is it about some policy or it's just > nobody asked them yet? > > I think tcpdump in particular should be added, sometimes it's necessary to > check out network stuff at a lower level; the telnet client would be very > useful too, none ever thinks to use it to connect to remote shells, but > sometimes it can be very useful to check out services and stuff. > > What do you think? > > - -- > Marco Mascherpa > GPG public key: http://mush.monrif.net/mush.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+dQViWDzw77m88hsRAip7AKCDc3pHRh5/PymmYOm5fqvGerxd3gCfXoty > zA1cIupyMGt3HMykiexXkWQ=8/Ey > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > It's almost funny that telnet isn't included, when ssh is. If you need to connect to remotre shells you can ssh to them. But like you said it cant be used to connect to certain services. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list