On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:03:13AM -0800, Tarmigan wrote: > Here's a patch (cut-n-paste so it will probably be munged) for > discussion of the port-fallback idea. If httpd cannot bind to 5541, > it tries 15541 etc. I would prefer if we skip the test right away. If we really want to try different ports, we should first check that the port really is the problem. Otherwise, the test will uselessly retry several times. Apache 2 writes (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 127.0.0.1:5541 to stderr, which we could use to detect that error condition. But other web servers are bound to behave differently. Clemens -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html