Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:12:49PM +0100, David Jansen wrote:
Does anyone know how to tell portmap which ports to give out? I have now
noticed a couple of times that some service fails after a reboot, and
then it turns out that portmap has assigned a random portmapper to
e.g. ypserv and that random number just happens to be the port another
service needs. Like this morning:
Jan 18 09:35:46 maas dovecot: Fatal:
Jan 18 09:35:46 maas dovecot: listen(993) failed: Address already in use
Jan 18 09:35:46 maas dovecot: dovecot startup failed
Ports just below 1024 are suppoosed to ephemeral - that is to say they are
a pool of temporary port numbers used by root processes for things like
the portmapper or rsh. If an application has been hard-coded to use port
993, then that application is probably misconfigured.
993 is the standard port for IMAP over SSL. Check your /etc/services file.
Paul.
