This doesn't directly answer your question, but Hudson/Jenkins does have the
port allocator plugin which does much as you suggest, but of course only in
the context of running a job. See
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Port+Allocator+Plugin.
Rich
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Danie
THanks, I was aware that I could do it through a Java (or similar) command.
What I've got is an Ant task that initializes there server instance with a
specified port number (unfortunately there's no facility to pass in 0 here).
I was after another task so I could so something like:
Cheer
Depends on what you're trying to do. Most programming environments have
a way to create a socket on an available port number.
For example (from JavaDoc for java.net.ServerSocket):
public ServerSocket(int port)
throws IOException
Creates a server socket, bound to the specified
Hi,
Is there a task or script that can be used to generate a (random) port
number that is known to be available? I'm trying to setup some server
instances for testing purposes, and I'd prefer not to hard-code port
numbers.
I'm running on Windows, so I don't have awk/sed available by default,
eith
