THanks, I was aware that I could do it through a Java (or similar) command.
What I've got is an Ant task that initializes there server instance with a
specified port number (unfortunately there's no facility to pass in 0 here).
I was after another task so I could so something like:
<target>
<getavailableport property="port.number" />
<createserver .... port="${port.number}" />
</target>
Cheers,
Daniel B.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Donald McLean <dmcl...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> Depends on what you're trying to do. Most programming environments have a
> way to create a socket on an available port number.
>
> For example (from JavaDoc for java.net.ServerSocket):
>
> public ServerSocket(int port)
> throws IOException
>
> Creates a server socket, bound to the specified port. A port of 0
> creates a socket on any free port.
>
>
> On 5/2/11 5:30 PM, Daniel Becroft wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a task or script that can be used to generate a (random) port
>> number that is known to be available? I'm trying to setup some server
>> instances for testing purposes, and I'd prefer not to hard-code port
>> numbers.
>>
>> I'm running on Windows, so I don't have awk/sed available by default,
>> either.
>>
>
>
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