My error, it is 1023. And now that you mention it, services have a list of ports and an english translation. It is used by netstat to "translate" the names.
Mark Kimbro Staken wrote: > On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 10:51 AM, Mark J. Stang wrote: > > > Kimbro/Tom/et. al., > > �yvind brings up a pretty good point, the default port number is below the > > reserved > > number of 5000. If I remember correctly, all ports below 5000 are known > > as > > "Well Known Ports" and are supposed to be reserved. I think XmlBlaster > > recently > > requested that their particular port be reserved for them. > > Well known ports are 1023 and below. You can reserve other ports but IANA > doesn't really control anything above 1023 and most apps don't bother with > registering. In reality we should be using an alt-http port but we > explicitly avoided that because it is so easy to conflict with another > process. i.e. 8080 is the default for Tomcat and a bunch of other things > and 8008 isn't much better. > > > By reserving ports and adding them to the services file, we eliminate the > > possibility > > that the OS would "give away" our port. *nix platforms grab unassigned > > ports > > Are you sure the services file is used for this purpose? > > > whenever someone needs a port. It does this by starting at the ones > > above > > the > > reserved ports and then keeps on going. Eventually, it rotates back and > > starts all > > over. Windows on the other hand just starts at the begining every time > > and > > keeps > > reusing ports. > > > > Anyway, the port that xindice uses is usually reserved for root access > > only > > on some > > It's ports 1023 and below that are reserved for root access. > > > machines. So, we probably should a default that is above the reserved > > limit. Or > > maybe provide a better message? I don't know, what does everyone else > > think? > > > > Mark > > > > �yvind Vestavik wrote: > > > >> First of all: > >> Thank you Mark for your effort to help me. > >> I really appreciate it. > >> > >> After two days i finally found that my problems getting Xindice > >> started had nothing to do with any environement variables as I had > >> thought. It had to do with > >> the fact that the servers http service is running om rel. low portnumber. > >> These are (at least on the machine I'm working on) reserved for processes > >> running as root. I don't have access to root. When the http service > >> couldn't start, the API service couldn't start either. > >> > >> By simply changing the port number of the http service in the > >> XINDICE_HOME/config/system.xml I managed to get the server up and running > >> in no time :-) > >> > >> In case someone run into the same problem.. > >> > >> �yvind > >> > >> �yvind Vestavik > >> �vre M�llenberggt 44b > >> 7014 Trondheim > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> 41422911 > > > > > Kimbro Staken - http://www.kstaken.org - http://www.xmldatabases.org > Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice > XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org > Senior Technologist (Your company name here)
