François Patte wrote: >> You have a list of ports and associated devices/protocols in /etc/serveces Doug: > Tried the command from root in pclos and got permission denied. I > don't know what if any ports are in use for anything, but I figured I > might find out. I'm surprised that root couldn't read that. Or do you mean you tried to execute that? Rather than trying to read the contents of the file /etc/services I've always found netstat to be handy at seeing what services are trying to do on my computer. For example: netstat -antu If you drop the "n" option, you'll see the names of things, rather than the numerical IP addresses and port numbers. For example: netstat -atu Stick a "p" option onto the list, and you'll see the actual program associated with the activity. Either way, you'll see a bunch of lines with some having "LISTEN" as their status. Those are services listening to those ports, whether or not anything is successfully communicating with them at the time. But before you blindly allow anything that's listening, do some research into the port numbers that you find listening. Just open the ones actually related to what you're trying to resolve. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Long ago I gave up on using Windows (TM) [Tantrum Machine], and I've never regretted it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
