PORTRELEASE(1)

💖 PORTRELEASE(1) 💖

the TCP port reservation utility — yes bestie, this is the portrelease page, and we're gonna make it make sense 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

portrelease — release previously-reserved ports 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

portrelease [SVC]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so here's the tea, bestie: the portrelease program instructs the portreserve daemon to release the port that goes with the given service configuration file. That's it. That's the whole job. Iconic, lowkey, no cap. 👑

The whole intended vibe here — like, the way it was designed to be used, fr fr — is that portrelease gets run by the initscript of the service that actually wants that port. So for example? The cups initscript might run:

portrelease cups

...and boom, the port situation is handled. Main character energy from the initscript, honestly. ✨

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🔥 EXIT CODE 🔥

• An exit code of zero means a best effort attempt has been made to instruct the daemon to release the port. Note the best effort energy — that's what we're working with. 💫
• Non-zero exit codes mean that the daemon is running but it couldn't be contacted. Like, she's there, she's just not picking up the phone. 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• portreserve(1) — go read her too, they're a matching set 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
  • Author. 🌸

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okay and for the cute little sign-off: this page is from the portreserve family, dated 1 July 2008, and it says PORTRELEASE(1) down at the bottom. slay, we're done here 💖✨🎀