On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:14:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:14:53PM -0400, Sean Morgan wrote: > > I've noticed a disturbing behavior in the version of xdm distributed in the > > x > > strike force's 4.1.0 prerelease series where xdm seems to listen on random > > ports > > in the 30000-60000 range. I'm not quite sure about this as I don't know > > exactly > > how to look up which program is using which port, though the listening > > behavior > > seems to be solely dependant on xdm running. If it makes any difference, I > > discovered this while running an 'nmap -p 1- localhost' out of sheer > > boredom and > > so far as I can tell all of the 'nolisten' options are set correctly in > > xdm's > > config files. > > try > > root# lsof -i | grep LISTEN
Thanks much, as I write this xdm is currently listening on port 3359, though that changes when I restart it. Why would xdm do such a thing in the first place?
