[Glass] Netldi and /etc/services (was Newbie on GLASS - Hello world fail)

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

I personally prefer sending -P and -p arguments to startnetldi and not
depend on  /etc/services

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

>
> Editing /etc/services is indeed the "approved" method for associating a
> netldi name with a specific port, but you do have to "figure this out ahead
> of time" and you have to use root to update /etc/services .... The drawback
> is that this needs to be done for every stone and a free port either needs
> to defined ahead of time (like 50377) or the /etc/services entry needs to
> be added after the netldi figures out which port is free ...
>
> I intend to automate this and if folks are comfortable with having to
> enter their `sudo` password whenever a stone is created, then I can go this
> route ... if there are (good) reasons for not updating /etc/services on
> every stone creation, then I can come up with alternate schemes...
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Dale
>
> On 09/20/2015 09:52 PM, Jupiter Jones via Glass wrote:
>
>> 1- after installing via "./installServer devKit 3.2.8.1" netLDI listens in
>>> different random ports each time it starts. How do I get it to listen on
>>> the
>>> one in the default gs64ldi port 50377 always instead?
>>>
>>> In /etc/services file add the following line:
>>> gs64ldi         50377/tcp        # Gemstone netldi
>>>
>> To have the devKit_ldi netldi process use the same port each time, also
>> add to /etc/services:
>>
>> devKit_ldi      50378/tcp               # DevKit GemStone Network Long
>> Distance Information (LDI)
>>
>> I typically don’t need to add this entry in development - ie. dev and
>> stone on the same machine. The only time I add this entry is when I want my
>> local tODE to connect to a remote stone. I add the stoneName_ldi to both
>> the local and remote /etc/services to ensure they both lookup the same port
>> number
>>
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