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Re: httpd servers do not conflict at each other (?)



On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> exim Provides: mail-transport-agent and Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> and it seems so does every other MTA.
>
> However, both apache and boa Provides: httpd but none of them
> Conflicts: httpd. Does this make sense?
>
> Which is the difference between httpd servers and mail-transport-agent
> servers?
>

You can (in fact it's fairly common) run different webservers on multiple
ports.  Mail servers usually only run on port 25.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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