Re: [probably offtopic] xdm port listening
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:14:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:14:53PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote:
> > I've noticed a disturbing behavior in the version of xdm distributed in the x
> > strike force's 4.1.0 prerelease series where xdm seems to listen on random ports
> > in the 30000-60000 range. I'm not quite sure about this as I don't know exactly
> > how to look up which program is using which port, though the listening behavior
> > seems to be solely dependant on xdm running. If it makes any difference, I
> > discovered this while running an 'nmap -p 1- localhost' out of sheer boredom and
> > so far as I can tell all of the 'nolisten' options are set correctly in xdm's
> > config files.
>
> try
>
> root# lsof -i | grep LISTEN
Thanks much, as I write this xdm is currently listening on port 3359, though
that changes when I restart it. Why would xdm do such a thing in the first
place?
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