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dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

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[Solved] Port 6001 open all of a sudden

I did a scan on my network just now and realized that port 6001 is open. I did not open it. The only thing I can think of is that I recently updated VirtualBox and it may have opened that port for me. Not sure. Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone know a solution? Another question I have is how would I find what program is using this port? I tried "lsof | grep 6001" and "netstat | grep 6001" but since there is no connection I do not see anything.

Edit: I also recently added second x session on tty8 that is the other possibility.

Last edited by dodo3773 (2011-05-22 05:51:07)

ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Port 6001 open all of a sudden

Try:

sudo netstat -pa

It will tell you which ports are open, and the name of the program that owns them

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dodo3773

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Registered: 2011-03-17

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Re: [Solved] Port 6001 open all of a sudden

Try:

sudo netstat -pa

It will tell you which ports are open, and the name of the program that owns them

Thank you for the quick response. I think I figured out what happened. My secondary xinit was being loaded like this

xinit /home/dodo3773/.openbox.xinitrc -- :1 

which for some reason was ignoring "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc"

So, I changed it to

xinit /home/dodo3773/.openbox.xinitrc -- :1 -nolisten tcp

and everything is back as it should be.