-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 03:44:45PM +0300, Victor Porton wrote: > Victor Porton wrote: > > > We are going to install a range of software on a Debian Linux > > installation. Because we run the same software (such as Celery) several > > times, we need to use port numbers different than the standard Debian port > > numbers chosen by default (because we can't run more than one instance of > > a server with the same port, and thus using the standard port number for > > all servers would fail). > > > > How to choose TCP/IP port numbers for server software we run in such a way > > that they don't clash with "standard" Debian port numbers? > > > > In Debian are there any ranges of port numbers dedicated (so that they > > wouldn't clash with "standard" that is used by default port numbers) for > > servers configured by users? > > > > Note that we run (at least some of) our software not as root, so we can't > > use ports below 1024. > > I received no satisfactory answer. > > So I feel that there is no Debian policy on using port numbers. > > This policy should be added to Debian!
I don't think so. I don't even think there is a policy which could ever cater to the ~50K packages present in Debian. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnQ5WQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZApwCfbJR0fajOhynmZv3RUqRYBmzh BpQAn01L1bDFJevwhZtWFPSnZzGR79cz =BD/R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----