On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eeek!! > > Just fooling around with some software on my laptop, I found that my Gentoo > desktop has an even dozen open inet ports with something listening to them, > in addition to the ones I would expect (25, 80 and so on). > They are all in the range 32768-60000. > > Netstat agrees that they're open but does not disclose which process is > listening. > > Does anybody know how to find this out? > I should add that they all disappear when I log off, and are not seen when I log in as root, nor when I log in remotely. These could (I hope so) be things that KDE is starting, but it seems like an awful lot of listening ports. I have about 125 processes just for starting KDE, few of which I understand, so I could use some help narrowing this down. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD