On Mar 28 15:19, Charles Wilson wrote: > After much pain and suffering, I've managed to restore what I consider > to be full functionality for the inetutils servers (rsh, rlogin, rcp, > telnet, ftp, ...). However, there's been some restructuring (and there > will be more in the future, but...not for a while.
I agree with Chris, thanks for doing this. Here's a note: > The r* tools (supposedly) support IPv6. Yes, but... > INETUTILS > ============ > 4) The inetutils package has been updated to upstream release 1.7. > However, it has NOT been compiled to support IPv6. (A) The support for > IPv6 in the inetd superserver is still somewhat lacking, (B) I'd rather > put that effort into xinetd, and (C) it seems that many of the slave > servers (ftpd, tftpd) OTHER than inetd, have no IPv6 support at all. Well, as far as rshd is concerned, there was IPv6-related code in the rcmd function for a few years... Accidentally, I never enabled it... Until today :-} So, if you had trouble to run rsh connections with IPv6, that may be the reason why. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
