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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike Frysinger
1c20e4a9fb tools/netconsole: use ncb automatically if available
The standard netcat, while ubiquitous, doesn't handle broadcast udp packets
properly.  The local ncb util does however.  So if ncb can be located in
the standard locations, automatically use that instead.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-09-15 22:55:45 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
770931805d tools/netconsole: make a bit more robust
The netcat utility likes to exit when it receives an empty packet (as it
thinks this means EOF).  This can easily occur when working with command
line editing as this behavior will be triggered when using backspace.  Or
with tabs and command line completion.  So create two netcat processes -
one to only listen (and put it into a loop), and one to do the sending.
Once the user quits the transmitting netcat, the listening one will be
killed automatically.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-09-15 22:54:19 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
bcb6dd9187 tools/netconsole: new script for working with netconsole over UDP
While the doc/README.NetConsole does have a snippet for people to
create their own netcat script, it's a lot easier to make a simple
dedicated script and tell people to use it.

Also spruce it up a bit to make it user friendly.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2008-12-10 09:23:11 +01:00