I've got a WIP game project I'll be exhibiting at school in about a month. I was thinking it would be cool to send log output to a linux box on the side that simply writes the received text to the screen. I happen to have a cheap Gentoo linux box I could use. Is there a standard program that I could run on the Gentoo box that would listen on a port and simply write to the console whatever it receives? I don't know much about networking, so would I have to do any additional handshaking to initiate the connection or could I just start sending data? I'd prefer to use the school LAN, but I could also use the serial/parallel port if I can get my hands on a null modem cable. Any direction would be appeciated. [Edited by - dcosborn on October 4, 2005 3:16:50 PM]

I'm sure netcat would be able to do this. Try searching google for it.

Looks promising; thanks.