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I'm trying to play around with Unix sockets. I'm trying to create a socket that will deliver a little text string payload, "Hello world.", each time a connection is made, and I'm going to write a little python program that will connect to the socket.

I've been working with ncat, but it's not working particularly well.



It's also not cleaning up the socket, but that fixed with a script.

Any ideas? I could switch to socat, but I'm not familiar with that program.

This is out of my depth so don't expect much more from me, but this will print the message every time a connection is made.

That did it. Thanks!

Now I just need to get it to send an EOF so the connection will close.

Haven't used ncat, if you are happy programming in C there are plenty of socket tutorials around that do exactly what you are looking for. C is the real language of Unix and sockets.

I figured it out. --recv-only was missing on the receiving side.



Alternately,

With that working, I'm moving on to seeing if I can get python to connect to it.

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That did cross my mind. I just wanted to get a quick prototype socket up, so I could move on to writing the python program. I'm going to try writing a C program that will create a socket one of these days, but today is not that day.

The socket I want to connect to already exists (It's the Docker socket), and as soon as python is connecting to this prototype socket, I'm going to switch over to the real socket.