[SOLVED] what is 'socat' and what is it used for? Ubuntu-15.04
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Socat is a command line based utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them.
But I found this thread interesting because epoptes is a computer lab management and monitoring tool and would not expect it to be installed by default. Its probably trying to login to some default server configuration. Is it a running service?
But I found this thread interesting because epoptes is a computer lab management and monitoring tool and would not expect it to be installed by default. Its probably trying to login to some default server configuration. Is it a running service?
As a quick note. Removing this package also solved by delayed shutdown problem. That problem was when I shutdown the system it waited 1 and 1/2 minutes waiting for a process to end.
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