[rescue] pushing text through a port?

[Carl-Johan Schenstrom]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:

> I have a stupid question maybe one of you will help me with....
> I have a program that logs some data into a text file.  I would like to
> push that text through a port when you telnet to that port - just like the
> starwars movie you can see at telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl
> How the heck do you do that?

Start cat from inetd?

telnet  stream  tcp6    nowait  nobody  /usr/bin/cat    cat /etc/motd

Don't forget to HUP inetd after changing /etc/inetd.conf. I don't think
Solaris inetd allows port numbers in the leftmost column so you'll have to
add something to /etc/services (or the appropriate directory service) and
use that name instead if you wan't to listen to an arbitrary port.

//cjs