Portreserve on F16

[Heinz Diehl]

Hi,

since portreserve is constantly failing on my F16 systems, and based upon older
and newer discussions on this topic, I wonder if it's still needed?!

[Ed Greshko]

> Hi,
>
> since portreserve is constantly failing on my F16 systems, and based upon older
> and newer discussions on this topic, I wonder if it's still needed?!

Ask yourself....

1.  Why were you using it?

2.  Are you affected by its failure?

If the answer to #1 is "I don't know", then you don't need it.

If you have a different answer to #1 and your answer to #2 is "No", then
you don't need it.

FWIW, I've never installed it nor needed it.

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 08:17 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> since portreserve is constantly failing on my F16 systems, and based upon older
> and newer discussions on this topic, I wonder if it's still needed?!

What do you mean by "failing"?  Are you getting an error message?

Portreserve is still required for a couple of services (spamassassin,
krb5-server) in Fedora 16.

Tim.
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[Heinz Diehl]

On 29.02.2012, Tim Waugh wrote:

Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: portreserve.service: main process
exited, code=exited, status=1
Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: Unit portreserve.service entered
failed state.
> What do you mean by "failing"?  Are you getting an error message?

Yes, of course. But all I get in the logs is

Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: portreserve.service: main process
exited, code=exited, status=1
Feb 29 20:36:43 wildsau systemd[1]: Unit portreserve.service entered
failed state.

"systemctl status portreserve.service" says:

portreserve.service - Port reservation utility
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service; disabled)
      Active: failed since Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:36:43 +0100; 2s ago
      Process: 27823 ExecStart=/sbin/portreserve (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      Main PID: 27824 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/portreserve.service
> Portreserve is still required for a couple of services (spamassassin,
> krb5-server) in Fedora 16.

I don't use either...

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 20:43 +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> "systemctl status portreserve.service" says:
>
> portreserve.service - Port reservation utility
>       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service; disabled)
>       Active: failed since Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:36:43 +0100; 2s ago
>       Process: 27823 ExecStart=/sbin/portreserve (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>       Main PID: 27824 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>       CGroup: name=systemd:/system/portreserve.service

Sounds like there might be stale configuration files
in /etc/portreserve/ then -- perhaps a bind() failure because systemd
already has the port.
> I don't use either...

You can just remove it then.

Tim.
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