Brian May writes: >>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Why do you think these servers conflict with each other? > > ... because, generally speaking, the servers will be automatically > installed at installation, and if the port is in use, then > installation may fail. Also, the server to grab the port first on > reboot is largely undefined.
Arguably, starting an IRC server with no user input is a bad idea. For better or worse, IRC servers need a lot of site-local configuration. Otherwise they cannot connect to other servers, the administrator cannot perform oper commands, and so forth. Separately, if port conflicts are worthy of Conflicts:, why do web servers not in general conflict with each other? You can install apache, aolserver, boa, caudium, and probably others on the same machine. On the DNS side, you can install bind, maradns and nsd on the same machine. Given how easy it is to make two IRC, HTTP or DNS servers work sanely side by side, Conflicts between them seem likely to cause more trouble than they save. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
