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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:

> > 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.

Agreed.  You just have to make sure that other processes that need to  
connect to that port get the right information.  E.g. Mailman.

-Barry

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