pmud and gkrellm on tcp???

[Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>]

 Hi,

 what is with pmud and gkrellm that requires a tcp service on port 879?

>--> netstat -anp | egrep 879
>tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:879           127.0.0.1:1038          ESTABLISHED 280/pmud
>tcp       32      0 127.0.0.1:1038          127.0.0.1:879           ESTABLISHED 371/gkrellm
>tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:879           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      280/pmud

 I do not like having services that I am not aware of. Too many
 security problems. Please let me know what this is for.

 Sergio