Bug 25921

Summary: netstat: documented option doesn't work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Alexander L. Belikoff <abel>
Component: net-toolsAssignee: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Alexander L. Belikoff 2001-02-03 22:58:01 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; Nav)


netstat manpage describes an option -L (sorthand for --listening) as the
one showing  the listening sockets. While --listening does work as
expected, -L doesn't. Instead,
netstat comlains about an unknown option

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. netstat --listening                 # works
2. netstat -L                             # DOESN'T WORK

	

Actual Results:  netstat: invalid option -- L


Expected Results:  Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address        
State      
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Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-05 22:35:40 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really try to fix this before next release.
Comment 2 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-02-06 16:38:09 UTC 
This is a man page typo, it should be '-l', not '-L'. Will fix.
Comment 3 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-02-06 20:44:53 UTC 
fixed.