On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:49:01AM -0800, petereasthope@canada.com wrote: > RFC 867specifies the protocol of the Daytime service, > which I believe is configured properly in inetd.conf > on a machine here. > > Is there any client in Debian which can invoke Daytime > on a neighbouring machine on a LAN? Netcat (nc) or telnet could be used, e.g., ken@foo:~ $ nc somehost.somenet daytime Wed May 3 15:29:03 2006 -- Ken Irving