Re: pmud and gkrellm on tcp???

[Chris Leishman <masklin@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:13:40PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> 
>  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.
> 

Taken from the PMUD man page:

	-p port
	     Specifies the port on which pmud will listen to TCP/IP requests.
	     This is used by Batmon. Pmud will only listen to requestes on the
	     localhost address.


So it can't be reached from other than the localhost.

Chris