On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Eeek!!
>
> Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo
> desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them,
> in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on).
> They are all in the range 32768-6.
>
> Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is
> listening.
>
> Does anybody know how to find this out?
>
I should add that they all disappear when I log off, and are not seen when I
log in as root, nor when I log in remotely. These could
(I hope so) be things that KDE is starting, but it seems like an awful lot
of listening ports. I have about 125 processes just for starting KDE, few
of which I understand, so I could use some help narrowing this down.
++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD