Re: localhost:4444

In article <1137588359.784609.67340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jonny_morrisuk@xxxxxxxxxxx <jonny_morrisuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes, this refers to the port. The file /etc/services lists some
>
>I see a service called Kerberos (which turns out to be a network
>authentication encryption thing) is running on 4444, which raises more
>questions: if Maya tried to install a document server to use port 4444
>but that port has already been nabbed by this Kerberos thing, what
>happens to the document server?

If a server is already listening on a port, then a new server
will be unable to bind to this port and normally will not start.

> I've looked on the Alias website and
>found that I can change the port number that Maya looks at for the help
>server, but there's little or no help on how to configure the help
>server itself - there appears to be no entry for it in /etc/services
>and no mention of it in the Alias troubleshooting guides.

More documentation would be helpful here.
Browsing the net suggests that Maya version 5 used 4444 as its default
port, but May version 6 uses 4446 and version 6.5 uses 4448. There might
be a file "port.txt" or somesuch that has the configuration.

> Would I be
>correct in saying that what I really need is the name of the service so
>that I can make my own entries in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf?
>Without such help I'm not sure I'd be able to make the appropriate
>entry in inetd.cong.

Sometimes programs will grab a port number using the library call
getportbyname. In this case, the system connects the actual port number
to this name via an entry in /etc/services. But you do need to know
the name it is using.


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