Nyancat CLI

Nyancat rendered in your terminal.

Setup

First build the C application:

make && cd src

You can run the C application standalone.

./nyancat

To use the telnet server, you need to add a configuration that runs:

nyancat -t

We recommend openbsd-inetd, but xinetd will work as well, and you should be able to use any other compatible inetd flavor.

Debian

If you are running Debian Sid ("unstable" as of writing this), you can install the nyancat package and the nyancat-server pseudo-package, the latter of which will install openbsd-inetd (unless you have another inetd installed) and set up /etc/initd.conf properly (note that it probably won't work if you have xinetd, so you're on your own in that case). I am not the maintainer of this package, please direct any questions or bugs to jmccrohan.

Licenses, References, etc.

The original source of the Nyancat animation is prguitarman.

The code provided here is provided under the terms of the NCSA license.