Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03AE36334C9 for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 10:02:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23148-04 for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 13:02:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:05:26.614564 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.ait.ac.at (arcss01.ait.ac.at [62.218.164.126]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C1B632B9F for ; Tue, 4 May 2010 10:02:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from telbiomed.at (192.168.160.1) by relay.arc.local (172.30.249.40) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.393.1; Tue, 4 May 2010 14:57:07 +0200 Received: from telbiomed.at ([192.168.180.13]) by telbiomed.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 4 May 2010 14:57:39 +0200 Received: from [192.168.160.58] ([192.168.160.58]) by telbiomed.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 4 May 2010 14:57:38 +0200 Subject: Statistics collector port / unix dom. socket? From: Peter Sabaini To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:56:56 +0200 Message-ID: <1272977816.21378.13.camel@w-ehs-psa.telbiomed.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2010 12:57:38.0802 (UTC) FILETIME=[600D6D20:01CAEB89] Received-SPF: None (S0HC.arc.local: peter.sabaini@ait.ac.at does not designate permitted sender hosts) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201005/38 X-Sequence-Number: 34511 Hello, it seems Postgres tries to send a UDP packet to a random high port to communicate with the statistics collector daemon. We have rather strict packet filter rules in place, and I'd like to make the system use a fixed port for this, or even better a Unix domain socket. Is this possible (setting a compile time or run time parameter)? Thanks, peter.