Jesse Molina wrote: > Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run > backgrounded without being fed tail -f /dev/null. I wonder if it > isn't the problem here. I had discounted it since I redirected both > stdin and stdout to the logfile.
I have had problems with netcat before. As I recall (vague memory now) it does not handle EOF conditions desirably. I switched my application to using the connect program (typically used with ssh) instead. It handles end conditions much better. http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect If that meets your needs then you may find it works better. Bob
