On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > And I've got another question. Is there a way of handling "listen ports > conflicts" in debian.
yeah it's called finders-keepers. 10000 is mine all mine :-) > I think no. So if the user want to use zabbix and > webmin which also uses tcp 10000 ... he as to play with netstat and > change the default port in one of the programs..if it's possible... > Seriously, the procedure would be for the package maintainers (that's you and I) to discuss an equitable solution. Webmin I think is more popular (never heard of zabbix) and has seniority but it is capable of running on a different port if necessary. Can zabbix be configured for a different port? worst comes to worst you could build a webmin module for Zabbix :-) > If such a conflict handling doesn't exists, maybe it will be a great > idea to implement this, to be able to just inform users that the > programs he is going to install will try to use the same port as another > already installed. > The only way I see to do this in the packaging sytem is for both webmin and zabbix to provide: and conflict: with a virtual package called tcp-port-ten-thousand-owner or something. Very evil! -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
