After reading your reply it occurred to me that I could have ran
netstat -ap |grep <port number>
So I did and it's ssh2d. Still learning so some of the things I don't use all
the time don't come immediately to mind.
Thanks a million for the help!
Steve
On 27-Mar-2000 Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 06:41:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Could some one on the list enlighten me as to what these ports are and why I
>> would need them? *or* point me to a good source of info on this?
>
> Those ports are probably X Windows. At least that's what port
> 6000 is. That will be there even if you are not logged in and just
> have xdm/gdm/kdm graphical logins up (since they need X up).
>
> If you are using ssh, you also get ports in this range when ssh
> is forwarding X connections. That may be what your port 6010 is but
> I'm not totally sure on that one. I generally see ports 6001 and/or 6002
> on forwarded connections but they are merely additional "display" numbers
> so 6010 is certainly within range and reason.
>
> Having these ports open allows you to connect to your X display
> from other systems. This you may or may not want to do. Most people
> who have multiple systems do want this enabled. There is an option to
> X to disable it and a config option for ssh not to forward X11 connections.
> You can also block it using the firewall code. As long as you haven't
> allowed external connections by running xhost, you probably don't have to
> worry too much about these ports.
>
> If you want to track down what process has these ports open, try
> running fuser or lsof. I personally prefer lsof. It generally doesn't
> get installed by default, but it should be on your distribution install
> CD if it's not already on your system.
>
>> TIA
>> Steve
>
> Mike
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