[tpop3d-discuss]tpop unable to handle load

[Yann GROSSEL]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 02:13:35 +0100
Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:07:24PM -0700, Richard Stockton wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 

> > I tried to run the test, but got this;
> > 
> > bash-2.05b# for i in `seq 1 101` ; do /usr/local/nc localhost 110 &
> > done bash: seq: command not found
> 
> (!) I'm slightly surprised that a UNIX system will boot
> without seq. It's a fairly standard shell utility.

freebsd never had it.

> > It appears that "seq" is supposed to be a builtin command in bash2,
> > but mine doesn't seem to have it. [sigh]  Any substitute?

> -- don't think so -- here it's part of GNU shellutils.

I think 'seq' is now in coreutils.

Under freebsd, doing 

  cd /usr/ports/sysutils/coreutils
  make install clean

should install GNU seq as /usr/local/bin/gseq

-- 
Yann