Re: packaging help
Check /etc/services.
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is going really well. Thanks to all those who have shared advice.
>
> How does one go about choosing ports for an application?
>
> Obviously there are well known ports, but is there any doc in debian
> that shows what ports have been 'reserved' by other applications?
>
> Thanks,
> Whit
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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
>> Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> I assume it has a main process, which when stopped, would result in the
>>>> workers being killed too. If that is so, I do not think you need to
>>>> store the pids of the workers anywhere.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I'm confusing terminology here. The main deamon does not
>>> spawn the workers. It and the workers are started by the init.d
>>> script. The workers and the main daemon should be started and stopped
>>> together.
>>>
>>> In that case, it seems like I should store the pid's... so I can kill
>>> them upon stop.
>>>
>>> Have I understood correctly?
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>> As a suggestion, I'd store the pidfiles under /run/your-program-name/,
>> under names like worker:0.pid, and main.pid or somesuch.
>>
>> start-stop-daemon can be of great help here, but unfortunately, I don't
>> recall any package off the top of my head that would serve as a good
>> example, even though I know I've met one or two.. :(
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