"Davidson, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Output from lsof:
>       inetd      144   root   25u  IPv4 0x30002eb6068      0t0     UDP
> *:amanda (Idle)
> 
> 
> Shouldn't amanda be (Listening) here? And what do I need to do to get it to
> listen?

Nah, it's a UDP socket, which is `stateless'.  TCP sockets say that they
are listening, as programs need to do a handshake of sorts when connecting.
 Programs that run UDP can just send out a packet, without needing to deal
with handshaking..

-- 
        Mike Hicks   [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
   Unix Support Assistant    | Carlson School of Management
Office: 1-160  Phone: 6-7909 |   University of Minnesota

Attachment: msg09722/pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature

Reply via email to