From 5684f6a7c10660d5350b0f94a33dda93d615ffd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerrit Pape Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:00:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] dbclient.1: dbclient uses compression if compiled with zlib support On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:40:57PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:24:25 +0200, Matt Johnston wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:43:58PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > >> Could you please clarify if dbclient really support compression or not? > >> If yes, could you please explain in the manpage how to enable it? > > > > As long as Dropbear was compiled with zlib support (which I > > assume is the case for Debian) > > It seems so, at least the source build-depends on libz-dev and the > binary depends on zlib1g. > > > dbclient will always use compression if the server supports it. There > > isn't any option to disable it at the moment. > > Is there a way to test that compression is used? I'm sorry, but I'm > really not an expert about these stuff. > > Could the following patch against version 0.51 be applied to the > dbclient manpage? --- dbclient.1 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/dbclient.1 b/dbclient.1 index 4502b23..7541517 100644 --- a/dbclient.1 +++ b/dbclient.1 @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ dbclient \- lightweight SSH client .SH DESCRIPTION .B dbclient is a small SSH client +.P +If compiled with zlib support and if the server supports it, dbclient will +always use compression. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-p \fIport -- 2.0.1