[rabbitmq-discuss] I'd like rabbitmq to be able to pick its own port(s)

[Paul Jones]

Hi Terry,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Terry Jones <terry at jon.es> wrote:

>
> I should perhaps have made it clear that I'd like this as an option. It's
> good that rabbit uses 5672 by default and it's good that you can
> specifically request a port. I'd like a third option - to let the OS give
> you the port (and to then report it somewhere - actually I can already see
> it in the ps output).
>

I haven't tried this, so it may not work, but have you tried configuring
Rabbit to use a port of 0? When using socket apis directly, I seem to recall
that is how you ask it to assign you a free port, and doing this from a
config level may just work...

Paul.
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