[cups.general] On some machines CUPS does not start

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:27:57AM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> In a network with many machines, all running CUPS and Mandrakelinux 9.2 
> is a certain amount of boxes where the CUPS daemon does not start on 
> boot time and claims that port 631 is already in use.

Could well be an RPC service, since ports < 1024 are allocated more or
less at random.

One possible approach for fixing it is portreserve; another would be a
C library enhancement to prevent some list of ports from being
allocated by bindresvport().

Tim.
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