Bug#717434: RFA: socat -- multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Chris Taylor <ctaylor@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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> I intend to orphan socat in the next few weeks and would like someone to
> adopt the package as it is still useful to many. I no longer have the time
> nor motivation/need to continue to maintain it, therefore I am formally
> requesting its adoption.
Do you intend to help mentoring ?
Bastien
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> Description-en: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
> Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams
> and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,
> devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,
> UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different
> modes for interprocess communication and many more options.
> .
> It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon),
> as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets,
> as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect
> TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively
> secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell
> scripts inside network connections. Socat supports sctp as of 1.7.0.
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> Thanks,
> Chris
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