/etc/services

[Jeff Chou]

Does anyone has the experience about how
to enable a TCP port?
I set a TCP port 10051 in /etc/services.
When I execute the "netstat -a", I can't see
this port was running or listening.
Should I run the other command to trigger
this 10051 TCP port?

Jeff

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Jeff,

Adding the line to /etc/services on its own will not start anything. You need to start the appropriate listening service/daemon associated with the application.

Rgds, Robin

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Jeff

Setting the port in /etc/services only makes it available to use.

Paula

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Adding the port definition in the services file just provides the translation service for the application to use that port. But, you would need to actually run the application to make use of it!

netstat shows active connections.

HTH
raj