Re: Port listening conflicts
> > My suggestion: since NAS has port 8000 first, change junkbuster to
> > something else.
> >
> > In the long run, however, we ought to have some way to prevent
> > problems like this in the future.
> >
> > Doesn't our netbase maintainer assign port numbers to nonstandard
> > services?
>
> It seems that both NAS and junkbuster don't need an entry in
> /etc/services (they use the port number directly) so it's
> probably not my job to assign this number :-).
No program actually needs an entry in /etc/services. These programs should
be modified to get their port number with getservbyname(3).
Directly using a port maybe ok for a local distribution, but if we want to
include these programs in Debian, they should be teached to coexist with
other programs.
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