What are this ports for .....

[Binu_5]

Hi All

Can Somebody tell me what are these ports used for ...How can we enable this in Red hat linux 9


Socks 1080/tcp Socks

Rmiactivation 1098/tcp RMI Activation

Rmiactivation 1098/udp RMI Activation

Rmiregistry 1099/tcp RMI Registry

Rmiregistry 1099/udp RMI Registry

Thanks
Binu

[Ivan Ferreira]

I don't know that the ports are for, but to enable a port, you need to install a service/daemon that uses that port.

When the services starts up, the ports will be openned. You also should configure that ports in the /etc/services file.

You can see the ports open using netstat -an, check for the LISTEN entries.

[Ralph Grothe]

Are you servers listening at the mentioned ports stand-alone ones,
or are you asking for how to configure xinetd to start them?
In the latter case you would have to place a config file in /etc/xinetd.d and restart xinetd.

[Gopi Sekar]

bit of google search tells that these ports are somehow related to JAVA Remote Object Activation. I don't know what they are so don't ask me about that :)

Regards,
Gopi

[Binu_5]

Hi All

What shall I do to enable this port ...
If I put the entries in xinetd ..will it work ...

Please help

Binu

[Ivan Ferreira]

You need to know the daemon/service that opens that port. You cannot add an entry to xinetd.conf and "start" the service without a "real" daemon running. Also, by now, you cannot tell if the service/daemon that uses that port runs under xinetd or is a independent service started with a rc init script.