Re: Kernel Edgeplay

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Paolo wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:55:09AM -0700, Chris Babcock wrote:
> > > socket(1)?
> > 
> > Prototype uses sendmail, but that's not going to scale for larger lists.
> > 
> > I'm not using socket because I'm a script jockey not a C programmer.
> 
> that's wholly in script realm (man 1 socket; in Debian it's its own pkg), eg:
> 
> ~$ rm -f /tmp/a.log; socket -q -p "ash /tmp/a" localhost 25; cat /tmp/a.log

also, you might want to check gawk's '/inet/' I/O extension - look into
'info gawk' for 'Advanced Features ...'

-- 
paolo

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