Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Gernot Salzer
Hi, what is the collected wisdom nowadays on how to avoid random port conflicts when booting? In 2005 I wrote: On boot some daemons (like nis/ypbind) obtain priviledged ports via portmap/bindresvport(). Portmap assigns ports that are not in use at the time of request, usually above 600. This

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
Gernot Salzer sal...@logic.at wrote: Hi, What is currently the expert way to avoid/handle such port conflicts in Debian? /etc/bindresvport.blacklist JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux Developer - jbla...@debian.org Public key available on http://www.jblache.org - KeyID: F5D6

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article 20090716105202.ga18...@logic.at you wrote: What is currently the expert way to avoid/handle such port conflicts in Debian? Afaik the outcome was, that daemons should only use random priveledged ports which are not in services file. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to