On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:44 -0400, Pyth7 wrote: > Hi All, > Am new to Fedora 5 and linux in general. > Is there something -a service(?)- I need to > to start to enable applications to connect on > localhost? > I am trying to run an application (FreeWRL) > that uses a tcp socket connection in a server/client > relationship using "localhost" port 9877. > The client part can't connect and times out > ,though the server part seems to run fine > per se. Are you sure the server is running properly? Try: $ netstat -lpn | grep 9877 That should show the server process listening on port 9877. If not, the server part isn't running properly. Do you have a firewall enabled? Paul. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
