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|    Vincent Coen to Louis Northmore    |
|    Changing the Standard port number used    |
|    13 Apr 22 17:48:19    |
      REPLY: 2:250/8.1 5c1edfb7       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 6256ff61       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0100       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.8 (Linux-x86_64)       Hello Louis!              Wednesday April 13 2022 17:09, you wrote to me:               > //Hello Vincent,//               > on *4/13/2022* at *14:39:48* You wrote in area *MBSE*        > to *All* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.               > [snip]               VC>> As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port        VC>> forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do        VC>> the same for port 24555 for the Pi.               VC>> Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of        VC>> port as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.                      VC>> Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?               > Id be tempted to solve this just using the port forwarding. So just        > forward port 24555 > IPAddressOfPi > 24554              That should do it - thanks for reminding me.                      > If you are determined to change the ports for any configured services,        > MBSE uses inetd right?               > check out the setup.sh script - at the end of this it configures        > /etc/services which the inetd service uses. My first step would be to        > edit /etc/services then try a reboot and see if inetd/xinetd picks up        > the new service config.              Yes that is set for 24554 but I do not know what actually this does in        relation       to mbse.              Documentation is a bit poor on this in the mbse docs.              I will stick to your first idea - well at least until it doesn't work, that        is.              Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 200 25/0 21 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340       SEEN-BY: 123/0 25 131 180 200 755 129/305 330 331 135/300 138/146       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 218/700 222/2 226/30 227/114 229/110 111       SEEN-BY: 229/206 317 400 424 426 428 452 550 664 700 240/1120 250/0       SEEN-BY: 250/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 21 261/38 263/0 266/512 275/100       SEEN-BY: 275/1000 282/1038 292/854 299/6 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/11 200 396/45 460/58 633/280 640/1321 712/848 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 15 27 50 119 5020/1042       PATH: 250/1 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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