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++ 28/02/05 08:37 -0800 - <Peter Elmer via RT>: > > Transaction: Correspondence added by [log in to unmask] > Queue: unix-admin > Subject: Re: [SLAC #22811] (x)rootd port number and /etc/services (was Re: anonymous ROOT ...) > Requestors: [log in to unmask] > Status: open > Owner: jgoebel > Ticket: https://webscs01.slac.stanford.edu/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=22811 > > CC: [log in to unmask], Stephen Gowdy <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [SLAC #22811] (x)rootd port number and /etc/services (was Re: anonymous ROOT ...) > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:36:40 +0100 > To: Fons Rademakers <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] > From: Peter Elmer <[log in to unmask]> > Hey Peter, > [Drop the xrootd list explicitly to see if RT stops sending multiple copies > of mails...] > > Hi unix-admin, > > I forgot about proofd, so I'd like to amend my request. Is it possible > to ask Redhat to add the following lines: > > proofd 1093/tcp # ROOT PROOF daemon > proofd 1093/udp # ROOT PROOF daemon > rootd 1094/tcp # ROOT daemon > rootd 1094/udp # ROOT daemon > > to the default /etc/services file which they distribute in RHEL? Both ports > are registered with IANA. (Since you pay them to listen to your requests, > hopefully they will respond!) Got that. I requested the block from RH and refered them to the IANA page. (They're good at listening, but not always doing what we request.) John > thanks, > Pete > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:19:57PM +0100, Fons Rademakers wrote: > > Note that rootd and proofd are already in the /etc/services of upcoming > > Apple Tiger. There is no reason for RH not to deliver a complete > > /etc/service, what else is the use to register with IANA. > > > > -- Fons > > > > > > Peter Elmer via RT wrote: > > > Hi Booker, > > > > > >On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:47:10AM -0800, Booker Bense via RT wrote: > > > > > >>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Peter Elmer via RT wrote: > > >>_ There is a standard registry for this kind of thing. Rootd is > > >>already registered. Vendors are supposed to include this in their > > >>OS ( or at least the ones below 1024 ). > > >> > > >>http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers > > >> > > >>_ In general vendors leave it up to sites to configure their > > >>application service ports. It might be a lot simpler just to > > >>hide the error message from the user. > > > > > > > > > Yes, Fons registered 1094 for rootd, so that is fine. What we really > > >need instead is to make sure that it gets into the actual /etc/services > > >file distributed by Redhat (i.e. that they distribute an /etc/services > > >file coherent with the IANA list). For this, my question was whether SCS > > >could ask the Redhat people to add it. Presumably they either manage > > >themselves the /etc/services file they distribute or have contact with the > > >person who does. Since access to (x)rootd is now standard for BaBar (and > > >relatively widespread in HEP) and the redhat /etc/services does seem to > > >try to be relatively complete instead of just listing true core unix > > >services, it seems worthwhile to pursue this with Redhat. > > > > > > [Here we go on the RT duplicate-all-mails game...] > > > > > > thanks, > > > Pete > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 > Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ############################################## # John Goebel <jgoebel(at)slac.stanford.edu> # # Stanford Linear Accelerator Center # # 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025 # ############################################ #