Mike Vanecek said: > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 15:01:16 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote >> Mike Vanecek wrote: >> > Strange that it always picks a different port. >> >> FAM uses portmap, and most portmap services pick a somewhat >> arbitrary port. > > I am not running portmap. However, starting sig_fam does start xinetd on a > random udp port. Can sig_fam run without portmap? What happens to my > system if > I run neither? Not an answer, and ignore this if you already knew this, but your original question suggests a possible misunderstanding of xinetd. xinetd is a bit like a switch. It really just 'passes on' incoming connections to services it is told to look out for. e.g. telnet - you don't have telnet running all the time, you have xinetd waiting for incomming telnet connections, then when it gets one it sets up telnet to handle it. Thus if xinetd is listening for udp packets on port 760 then there is a matching service that is expecting udp packets on port 760 If xinetd is not handling any services, then it will not even stay running i.e. xinetd does not have a port or packet type for itself only for each the services it is handling -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
