portreserve

The portreserve program aims to help services with well-known ports that lie in the bindresvport() range. It prevents portmap (or other programs using bindresvport()) from occupying a real service’s port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port (generally in its init script).

I work on this application as part of my job at Red Hat.

Download

Download tarball releases from:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/portreserve

Source Code

Fetch the source repository like this:

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/portreserve.git

or browse it using gitweb.

Bug Reporting

Report bugs using the trac interface.

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2 Responses to “portreserve”

  1. Cyrus Mehta Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Sounds like a great utility, not asking for Solaris port, but just asking if you consider this a purely Linux solution to this very real problem across most Unices, or do you think it can be easily modified to support Solaris (Sparc if it matters).

  2. tim Says:
    January 9th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

    I don’t think there’s any reason it wouldn’t work on Solaris as-is to be honest, but I haven’t tried it.

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