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GNU Inetutils ¶

This manual documents version 2.6 of the GNU networking utilities.

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Short Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Common options
3 dnsdomainname: Show DNS domain name
4 hostname: Show or set system host name.
5 ifconfig: Configure network interfaces
6 logger: Send messages to system log
7 ping: Packets to network hosts
8 ping6: Packets to IPv6 network hosts
9 traceroute: Trace the route to a host
10 whois: User interface to WHOIS data bases.
11 ftp: FTP client
12 rcp: Copy files between machines
13 rexec: a remote execution program
14 rlogin: Remote login
15 rsh: Remote shell
16 talk: a communication program
17 telnet: User interface to TELNET
18 tftp: TFTP client
19 inetd: Internet super-server
20 syslogd: system service logging faclity
21 ftpd: FTP daemon
22 rexecd: server for rexec
23 rlogind: Remote login server
24 rshd: Remote shell server
25 talkd: a server for communication between users
26 telnetd: Telnet server
27 tftpd: TFTP server
28 uucpd: Unix to Unix Copy relay daemon.
Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License
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