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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[752f4e5] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-inetutils" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Inetutils-&inetutils-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="inetutils.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils"><primary sortas="a-Inetutils">Inetutils</primary></indexterm>
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[0b6cb04] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The Inetutils package contains programs for basic networking.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>11 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 20 |
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[a001133] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>Inetutils installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
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[69993f4] | 24 | Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 25 | </segmentedlist>
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| 26 | </sect2>
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[cd8e54e] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 29 | <title>Installation of Inetutils</title>
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| 30 |
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[ef13657] | 31 | <para>Inetutils has issues with the Linux 2.6 kernel series. Fix these
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| 32 | issues by applying the following patch:</para>
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[9dfc02f] | 33 |
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[71bbe67] | 34 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../inetutils-&inetutils-version;-kernel_headers-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[9dfc02f] | 35 |
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[ef13657] | 36 | <para>All programs that come with Inetutils will not be installed.
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| 37 | However, the Inetutils build system will insist on installing all the
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| 38 | man pages anyway. The following patch will correct this
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| 39 | situation:</para>
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[2ad19ed] | 40 |
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[71bbe67] | 41 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../inetutils-&inetutils-version;-no_server_man_pages-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[2ad19ed] | 42 |
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[69993f4] | 43 | <para>Prepare Inetutils for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 44 |
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[f4993cf] | 45 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
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[673b0d8] | 46 | --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
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| 47 | --disable-logger --disable-syslogd \
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| 48 | --disable-whois --disable-servers</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 49 |
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| 50 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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| 51 |
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[df8334f] | 52 | <variablelist>
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| 53 | <varlistentry>
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[ef57e3b] | 54 | <term><parameter>--disable-logger</parameter></term>
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[df8334f] | 55 | <listitem><para>This option
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[ef57e3b] | 56 | prevents Inetutils from installing the <command>logger</command> program, which is used by
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[b9626c1] | 57 | scripts to pass messages to the System Log Daemon. Do not install it
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[73aedd1d] | 58 | because Util-linux installs a better version later.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 59 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 60 |
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[df8334f] | 61 | <varlistentry>
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[ef57e3b] | 62 | <term><parameter>--disable-syslogd</parameter></term>
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[df8334f] | 63 | <listitem><para>This option
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[f4993cf] | 64 | prevents Inetutils from installing the System Log Daemon, which is
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| 65 | installed with the Sysklogd package.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 66 | </varlistentry>
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[f4993cf] | 67 |
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[df8334f] | 68 | <varlistentry>
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[ef57e3b] | 69 | <term><parameter>--disable-whois</parameter></term>
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[df8334f] | 70 | <listitem><para>This option disables
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[b9626c1] | 71 | the building of the Inetutils <command>whois</command> client, which is out of date.
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[00caac0] | 72 | Instructions for a better <command>whois</command> client are in the BLFS book.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 73 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 74 |
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[df8334f] | 75 | <varlistentry>
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[ef57e3b] | 76 | <term><parameter>--disable-servers</parameter></term>
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[ef13657] | 77 | <listitem><para>This disables the installation of the various network
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| 78 | servers included as part of the Inetutils package. These servers are
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| 79 | deemed not appropriate in a basic LFS system. Some are insecure by
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| 80 | nature and are only considered safe on trusted networks. More
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[2256873] | 81 | information can be found at <phrase condition="html"><ulink
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| 82 | url="&blfs-root;view/svn/basicnet/inetutils.html"/></phrase><phrase
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| 83 | condition="pdf"><ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/ basicnet/inetutils.html"/></phrase>. Note that
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[ef13657] | 84 | better replacements are available for many of these
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| 85 | servers.</para></listitem>
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[df8334f] | 86 | </varlistentry>
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| 87 | </variablelist>
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[73aedd1d] | 88 |
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| 89 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 92 |
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[ef13657] | 93 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 94 |
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| 95 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 96 |
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[673b0d8] | 97 | <para>Move the <command>ping</command> program to its FHS-compliant
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[4248b0e] | 98 | place:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 99 |
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| 100 | <screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/ping /bin</userinput></screen>
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[2256873] | 101 | <beginpage/>
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[73aedd1d] | 102 | </sect2>
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[0b6cb04] | 103 |
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[5888299] | 104 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 105 | <sect2 id="contents-inetutils" role="content"><title>Contents of Inetutils</title>
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[673b0d8] | 106 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | <segmentedlist>
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| 108 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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[69993f4] | 109 | <seglistitem><seg>ftp, ping, rcp, rlogin, rsh, talk, telnet, and tftp</seg></seglistitem>
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[c6cb3aa] | 110 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 111 |
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[2256873] | 112 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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[3ed279f] | 113 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[673b0d8] | 114 |
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[b8a819f] | 115 | <varlistentry id="ftp">
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| 116 | <term><command>ftp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 117 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 118 | <para>Is the file transfer protocol program</para>
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[3ed279f] | 119 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils ftp"><primary sortas="b-ftp">ftp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 120 | </listitem>
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| 121 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 122 |
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[b8a819f] | 123 | <varlistentry id="ping">
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| 124 | <term><command>ping</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 125 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 126 | <para>Sends echo-request packets and reports how long the replies take</para>
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[3ed279f] | 127 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils ping"><primary sortas="b-ping">ping</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 128 | </listitem>
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| 129 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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[b8a819f] | 131 | <varlistentry id="rcp">
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| 132 | <term><command>rcp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 133 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 134 | <para>Performs remote file copy</para>
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[3ed279f] | 135 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rcp"><primary sortas="b-rcp">rcp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 138 |
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[b8a819f] | 139 | <varlistentry id="rlogin">
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| 140 | <term><command>rlogin</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 141 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 142 | <para>Performs remote login</para>
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[3ed279f] | 143 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rlogin"><primary sortas="b-rlogin">rlogin</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 144 | </listitem>
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| 145 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 146 |
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[b8a819f] | 147 | <varlistentry id="rsh">
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| 148 | <term><command>rsh</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 149 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 150 | <para>Runs a remote shell</para>
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[3ed279f] | 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils rsh"><primary sortas="b-rsh">rsh</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 154 |
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[b8a819f] | 155 | <varlistentry id="talk">
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| 156 | <term><command>talk</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 157 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 158 | <para>Is used to chat with another user</para>
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[3ed279f] | 159 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils talk"><primary sortas="b-talk">talk</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 160 | </listitem>
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| 161 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 162 |
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[b8a819f] | 163 | <varlistentry id="telnet">
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| 164 | <term><command>telnet</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 165 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 166 | <para>An interface to the TELNET protocol</para>
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[3ed279f] | 167 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils telnet"><primary sortas="b-telnet">telnet</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 168 | </listitem>
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| 169 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 170 |
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[b8a819f] | 171 | <varlistentry id="tftp">
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| 172 | <term><command>tftp</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 173 | <listitem>
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[2256873] | 174 | <para>A trivial file transfer program</para>
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[3ed279f] | 175 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-inetutils tftp"><primary sortas="b-tftp">tftp</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 176 | </listitem>
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| 177 | </varlistentry>
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| 178 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 179 |
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| 180 | </sect2>
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| 181 |
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| 182 | </sect1>
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[ef13657] | 183 |
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