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     * networking(inet) utilities: (inetutils).      GNU networking utilities.
     * ftp: (inetutils)ftp invocation.               File Transfer Protocol.
     * ftpd: (inetutils)ftpd invocation.             FTP Daemon.
     * inetd: (inetutils)inetd invocation.           Interner super-server.
     * ping: (inetutils)ping invocation.             Packets to network hosts.
     * rcp: (inetutils)rcp invocation.               Strip non-directory suffix.
     * rexecd: (inetutils)rexecd invocation.         Remote execution server.
     * rlogin: (inetutils)rlogin invocation.         Remote login.
     * rlogind: (inetutils)rlogind invocation.       Remote login server.
     * rsh: (inetutils)rsh invocation.               Remote shell.
     * rshd: (inetutils)rshd invocation.             Remote shell server.
     * logger: (inetutils)logger invocation.         Logger.
     * syslogd: (inetutils)syslogd invocation.       Syslog server.
     * talk: (inetutils)talk invocation.             Talk client.
     * talkd: (inetutils)talkd invocation.           Talk server.
     * tftp: (inetutils)tftp invocation.             Trivial FTP.
     END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

This file documents the GNU networking utilities.

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GNU networking utilities
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This manual documents version VERSION of the GNU network utilities.

Introduction
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The individual utilities was originally derived from the 4.4BSDLite2 distribution.  Many features were integrated from NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and GNU/Linux, the merges were done by a group of dedicated hackers (in no particular order): Jeff Bailey, Marcus Brinkmann, Michael Vogt, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer, Kaveh R. Ghazi, NIIBE Yutaka, Nathan Neulinger, Jeff Smith, Dan Stromberg, David O'Shea, Frederic Goudal, Gerald Combs, Joachim Gabler, Marco D'Itri.

Certain options are available in all these programs.  Rather than writing identical descriptions for each of the programs, they are described here.  (In fact, every GNU program accepts (or should accept) these options.)

Many of these programs take arbitrary strings as arguments.  In those cases, --help and --version are taken as these options only if there is one and exactly one command line argument.

--help
     Print a usage message listing all available options, then exit successfully.

-V
--version
     Print the version number, then exit successfully.

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Reporting bugs
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Email bug reports to bug-inetutils@gnu.org.  Be sure to include the word ``inetutils'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.

syslogd
     The effects of multiple selectors are sometimes not intuitive.  For exam- ple ``mail.crit,*.err'' will select ``mail'' facility messages at the level of ``err'' or higher, not at the level of ``crit'' or higher.

Concept Index
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This is a general index of all issues discussed in this manual, with the exception of the commands and command-line options.

Index
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This is an alphabetical list of all commands, command-line options, and environment variables.