Comments on: portreserve

By: PRINT HEAD » The portreserve problem: is systemd the solution?

PRINT HEAD » The portreserve problem: is systemd the solution? — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:53:09 +0000

[...] a while ago I wrote portreserve, a utility to prevent ports getting stolen at boot time by portmap. This would happen with CUPS, [...]

By: tim

tim — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:36:16 +0000

It’s to prevent portmap from stealing well-known ports for services that are installed.

Here’s the original discussion about the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=103401

By: Paul Campbell

Paul Campbell — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:04:01 +0000

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Why is portreserve needed ?

I am trying to remove services that I don’t need.
It looks like CUPS has a dependency on this.

Can you point me to someplace where I can read more about the service ?

By: tim

tim — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:50:59 +0000

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.

By: Cyrus Mehta

Cyrus Mehta — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:43:52 +0000

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).