help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

[lei yang]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote:
>> Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied,
>> then I compiled it, but it has no
>> "-U" flag like what I post, it seems a version different casued this.
>
> Yes. The version distributed by the ports collection is different
> from that one supplied with the base system of FreeBSD.
>
> To try _that_ version, you can download the source tarball and
> extract it; in the directory
>
> # wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/src.txz
> # tar xvf src.txz

Thanks for the help,

tar xvf src.txz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 4896 bytes from src.txz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[lyang0 at ala-lpggp2 lyang0]$ tar xvf src.txz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 4896 bytes from src.txz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors



> # cd cusr/src/ontrib/netcat/
> # ls
> FREEBSD-Xlist    FREEBSD-vendor   atomicio.h       netcat.c
> FREEBSD-upgrade  atomicio.c       nc.1             socks.c
> #
> <your build command(s) here>
>

Suppose gcc -o netcat netcat.c atomicio.c socks.c should work

Lei



> You can check the FTP server for other versions of the OS
> (e. g. different branch and architecture, starting at
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/, then selecting
> architecture and finally the OS version). There are also
> different ways of obtaining the sources, but the solution
> shown here should be sufficient.
>
> (You can use "tar xvf src.txz usr/src/contrib/netcat" to
> only extract the files for netcat instead of everything,
> but it _might_ be possible that the build process needs
> some files from other locations.)
>
> If you don't have wget installed, stock "ftp <location>"
> command should also work for downloading.
>
>
>
>
>> I don't know where to find the source code in Red Hat.
>
> Me neither, but check "man hier" on a RH system to get
> the documentation about the file system hierarchy which
> should have detailed information on what is stored where.
>
>
>
>
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