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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On September 15, 2009, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember when we started using Windmill, we have this problem that
> after a test run, uuid had somehow started listening on a port we used
> (either the app or smtp server, I can't remember). We don't seem to have
> this problem anymore, so can anyone remember how we fixed it?
> 

It was fixed by a new upstream version. I think they catch the error and 
change ports automatically.

> Well, actually we do have this problem. I'm making the Windmill tests
> run in a subclass of AppServerLayer, which starts an SMTP server. After
> windmill and the SMTP server is stopped, libuuid has started listening
> on the port the SMTP server used. I've worked around it for now by
> stopping the server before starting Windmill, since I don't think any
> tests use it, but I'd like to solve this properly.
> 

Since that's in our code, we should probably do the same thing. Catch the port 
already in use and find another port.



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Francis J. Lacoste
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