posted 15 years ago
Yes there is. If you're using the pserver, you specify it in the inet.d or xinet.d configuration. inet/xinet is the "superserver", which allows lightweight servers to be loaded and run dynamically without the need to keep a daemon process running full-time. In effect, the listener part of the server is the inet daemon, which then hands off to the actual server.
What ports are listened for and what processes are attached to them are defined in the server config files.
Here's a xinetd example:
To assign a port, add a "port = nnnn" line. I think by default it's using the port defined in /etc/services.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
