Installing Netkit-base-0.17

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  1 MB

Installation of Netkit-base

Install Netkit-base by running the following commands:

./configure &&
make &&
make install &&
cd etc.sample &&
cp services protocols /etc

There are other files in the etc.sample directory which might be of interest to you.

Contents

The Netkit-base package contains the inetd and ping programs.

Description

inetd

inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections, and transfers the call to the appropriate daemon.

ping

ping sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host and determines its response time.

Dependencies

Netkit-base-0.17 needs the following to be installed:


sh rom the bash package

as rom the binutils package
ld rom the binutils package
strip rom the binutils package

cp rom the fileutils package
install from the fileutils package
rm rom the fileutils package

make rom the make package

cc rom the gcc package

sed rom the sed package

date from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package