On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 13:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 03-Apr-2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > So in what sense does the test 'not work'? > > It fails (exits with a non-zero status), even though the ‘portmapper’ > service is running. > > > Does 'cat </dev/null >/dev/tcp/localhost/111' produce any error > > message? > > No.
So you're saying that on your system, the 'cat' command can silently fail? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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