portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:08:03PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Port Assignments during System Boot. Gernot Salzer [15]noticed that
> some network ports get assigned dynamically during the boot process
> and sometimes clash with daemons that use fixed ports. Javier
> Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a [16]explained that the assignment happens
> inside the GNU C library and [17]started the portsreserve package to
> prevent such cases.
You know, a gidreserve or uidreserve would be useful too.
${EMPLOYER} maps the group "users" to gid 101 instead of what
Debian uses, 100. If one doesn't stop at a completely
bare-bones base install to reserve gid 101 to allow the
conversion from users=100 to users=101, it gets taken up by the
next package that needs a low, but assigned-at-install-time,
gid.
--
Joe
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