Information about the package, tcping, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tcping package is designed for, Check of TCP connection to a given IP/Port.
Package Name:
tcping
Summary:
Check of TCP connection to a given IP/Port
Description:
tcping does a TCP connect to the given ip/port combination. The user can specify a timeout in seconds. This is useful in shell scripts running in firewalled environments. Often SYNs are just being dropped by firewalls, thus connection establishment will be retried several times (for minutes) until a TCP timeout is reached. With tcping it is possible to check first if the desired port is reachable and then start connection establishment.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.3.5
Release:
13.el6
Size:
13 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3+
Control the tcping package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install tcping
This command will install tcping on the server.
yum remove tcping
This command will un-install tcping on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tcping, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove tcping
This command will un-install tcping on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tcping when using the -y flag.
yum update tcping
This command will update tcping to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tcping, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update tcping
This command will update tcping to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tcping when using the -y flag.
yum info tcping
This command will show you core information about the tcping package.
yum deplist tcping
This command will show you the dependencies for tcping. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update tcping
This command will check if there is an update waiting on tcping. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.