On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Schnurrenberger <t...@gmx.net>wrote:

> If this port (8080) is already used, the service fails silently.
> To circumvent this problem either specify a different port when
> you create the service (-p|--port option) or start the service
> before you use the "interactive" 'fossil server' or 'fossil ui'
> commands.
>

On Linux systems (and, i _assume_ others), if 8080 is already taken fossil
tries the next port, then the next one... not sure how many time it'll try.
So --port should only be necessary when you want to hard-code to a specific
port.

-- 
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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