Hi. On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 07:43:47AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2017 03:34:19 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 01:28:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Assuring that my port is not in this IANA list is not enough to > > > > > ensure that my port number will not clash with a port number > > > > > used by a Debian package (by default). > > > > > > > > > > So your answer to my question is wrong. > > > > > > In which case debian should publish the unlisted ports they do use, > > > if for no other reason than to "stake a claim". > > > > "Debian" "should". Gene, you "should" know better ;-) > > > > Want to start with it? Write a script which scans the /etc files in > > all Debian packages for network configurations. > > > That might be possible IF you wanted to use a tool like grep, but in 30 > years I've not found a way to silence the "binary file matches" messages > from grep.
You haven't looked hard enough. It's "grep -I". Those manpages, sometimes reading them works wonders. Reco