Certainly you may add it!

--Dean

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> From: news@... [mailto:news@...]On Behalf Of Frank
> Schlottmann-Goedde
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 2:30 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] RedHat 7 and Interbase 6
>
>
> Dean Anderson wrote:
>
> > Actually, the problem is not related to Gnome in particular, so this
> > instruction isn't valid. The "problem" is that the system will allocate
> > ports above 1024 to anonymous sockets (sockets that aren't bound to a
> > particular port). Whenever socket is created, it is assigned a
> (basically
> > random) port unless a specific port number is bound to the socket either
> > on
> > creation or by the bind system call. So port 3050 could be in use by
> > something. Use fuser -n tcp 3050 to find out what (if
> anything) is using
> > 3050. You will have to kill that process.
> >
> > It would be preferable if interbase or firebird would request a port
> > number assignment from IANA, which could be assigned below 1024, which
> > would preclude such collisions. Of course, then the server will
> need to be
> > suid, and able to setuid/setgid itself to the correct non-root
> user after
> > getting its sockets setup.
>
> Thank you for the clarification.
> May I add this information to the howto?
>
> Frank
>
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