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Inetutils Cheatsheet

This cheatsheet covers some of the basics of the GNU OS. It is based on the inetutils manual.

Common Options

All programs accept

• --help

• --usage
how to use the program
• --version
the version number

Exit Status

Almost all programs have an exit status of 0 to mean success. non-0 means failure.

dnsdomainname

will show the you the domain part of the fully qualified domain name.

hostname

hostname [option] hostname NAME

• -d get the domain name
• -f fully qualified domain name
• -i get the IP address

get the hostname

traceroute [option] HOST

info:inetutils#traceroute invocation

• -f NUM
make the package that you are sending not report information on the NUM of routers closest to you. So if you know that there are 10 routers between you and the remote, this makes the package ignore the first NUM routers

• -g GATES
I can specify which gateways I want to send my package through. The gates are specified by their hostname, IP address, and are seperated by commas, semicolans, or spaces. At most 8 may be specified

• -I
Use ICMP ECHO datagrams for probing the remote host

• -m NUM
set the maximum time to live allowed for probing. In other words stop probing when the hop distance is in excess of NUM.

• M METHOD
Use either icmp or udp as the method to transfer packets

-p PORT set the destination of the target port

--resolve-hostnames Attempt to resolve all addresses as hostnames

ftp [OPTION...] [HOST [PORT]]

Once you are connected several commands become available
• ls print dir on remote machine
• lpwd pwd on local
• cd change directory or the remote
• lcd change directory on the local
• get remote-file [local file]
• put local-file [remote file]

rcp

Copy files between remote machines

rexec

Perhaps I could use this save files on a remote machine with ftp execute a program on a remote machine rexec --user=LOGIN --password=PASS --host=HOST [OPTION] COMMAND

rlogin

login to a remote server

rsh

executes commands on a remote host and copies the local stdin to that of the remote commands. It also takes the remote standard output and makes it the local input!

And I can do this

#+BEGIN_SRC sh ln -s $(which rsh) HOSTNAME HOSTNAME ls #+END_SRC

Afterwards, HOSTNAME will be passed to 'rsh' as host name whenever the command HOSTNAME is issued.

talk PERSON [ttyname]

If you wish to talk to someone on your machine, the person is just the username of the person on your machine, if the person is on a different machine then use username@host

ttyname is typically of the form ttyXX

tftp