UMS2NET(8)

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version 0.1.4 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

bestie, this is the tea on ums2net — it's a daemon for a UMS to network proxy. yes, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ums2net -c ConfigFile [-d] [-P PIDFile]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so first things first: this manual page is literally just a quick lil rundown of the ums2net command. 💅

and fr fr, it exists because of Debian — the original program straight-up doesn't have a manual page, so this one got written for the Debian distribution. iconic of them tbh. 🎀

so what is ums2net? it's a daemon that lets you use nc to flash a USB Mass Storage device. yes bestie, over the network. 🔥

here's the rundown of how it behaves:

  • it comes up normally as a daemon
  • it opens the TCP ports that are specified in the configuration file
  • then it just… waits for connections 👑
  • once a connection happens, it attempts to open the device and write any data it receives from the network onto it

and the queueing situation? if another user is already using the connection, the connection gets blocked until that other user is done. no cutting the line, periodt. 💀

🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

the program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). a summary of the options is included below. 🌈

  • -c ConfigFile — loads configs from ConfigFile.
  • -d — debug mode!! it does not detach from the console, so you can actually watch what's happening 👀
  • -P PIDFile — generate pid file.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/ums2net.conf — the system-wide configuration file that controls the behaviour of ums2net. also, there's some examples shipped under /usr/share/doc/ums2net/examples if you want inspo ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

the upstream BTS (bug tracking system, iykyk) lives at https://github.com/grandpaul/ums2net/issues. go yell there, not here 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ying-Chun Liu <paulliu@debian.org> wrote this manpage for the Debian system. thank you for your service 🫡💜

Copyright © 2018 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

this manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this was ums2net, version vibe-checked on 10/02/2025, page UMS2NET(8) — go flash something, slay 💅✨🦋

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