Estimated build time: 1 minute Estimated required disk space: 1 MB
Install Netkit-base by running the following commands:
./configure && make && make install && cd etc.sample && cp services protocols /etc
There are other files in the etc.sample directory which might be of interest to you.
The Netkit-base package contains the inetd and ping programs.
inetd is the mother of all daemons. It listens for connections, and transfers the call to the appropriate daemon.
ping sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a host and determines its response time.
Netkit-base-0.17 needs the following to be installed:
sh rom the bash package
as rom the binutils package
ld rom the binutils package
strip rom the binutils package
cp rom the fileutils package
install from the fileutils package
rm rom the fileutils package
make rom the make package
cc rom the gcc package
sed rom the sed package
date from the sh-utils package
cat from the textutils package