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portreserve


Information about the package, portreserve, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The portreserve package is designed for, TCP port reservation utility.


Package Name:

portreserve

Summary:

TCP port reservation utility

Description:

The portreserve program aims to help services with well-known ports that lie in the portmap range. It prevents portmap from a real service's port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port (generally in the init script).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.0.4

Release:

11.el6

Size:

35 k

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

base

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for portreserve


Control the portreserve package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install portreserve

This command will install portreserve on the server.

yum remove portreserve

This command will un-install portreserve on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove portreserve, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove portreserve

This command will un-install portreserve on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove portreserve when using the -y flag.

yum update portreserve

This command will update portreserve to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove portreserve, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update portreserve

This command will update portreserve to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove portreserve when using the -y flag.

yum info portreserve

This command will show you core information about the portreserve package.

yum deplist portreserve

This command will show you the dependencies for portreserve. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update portreserve

This command will check if there is an update waiting on portreserve. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.