Thanks to Dejan Muhamedagic and Knut Borge for answers. Here is Kunt's
response:
>I assume I can just reassign tcp port 2401 to the new server, right?
Yes.
>In the comment for writesrv in /etc/services, what does "AIXism, new"
>refer to?
The feature originated in AIX and is not generally found on Unix systems.
It's interesting to note that the corresponding entry in /etc/services on
an AIX 4.3 system is marked 'Temporary Port Number'.
To be 110% sure that this will not interfere with anything on your system,
do a 'netstat -an |grep 2401'.
Harlan
PS The original question:
>I would like to install a new server (pserver for CVS) on our DU 4.0B
>system. I have the documentation about what to put in /etc/inetd.conf and
>/etc/services.
>
>However, pserver would like to use tcp port 2401, but in /etc/services that
>port is already assigned to
>
>writesrv 2401/tcp # for the write server (AIXism, new)
>
>Looking in the man pages, writesrc is for the write command and appears to
>be rather obsolete. writesrv is not included in our inetd.conf, nor is it
>defined in our /etc/rc.config. I don't think we will ever use it.
>
>I assume I can just reassign tcp port 2401 to the new server, right?
>
>In the comment for writesrv in /etc/services, what does "AIXism, new"
>refer to?
>
>The documentation with CVS claims that port 2401 for pserver "is officially
>registered" whatever that means.
Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 16:38:08 NZDT