[ale] port 32772?

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Last week I wrote writes:
 > Randy Janinda writes:
 >  > Since it's your box just run
 >  > 
 >  > 'fuser -n tcp 32772'
 >  > then check the 'ps' listing for the pid that is returned.
 > 
 > Sorry, I should have mentioned that fuser doesn't report anything, but
 > I can telnet to that port, so something is there.  I can't find that
 > port in the xinetd.d/* files.
 > 

And I just discovered that if you don't run fuser as root it can
silently fail.  I turns out that it is rpc.mountd that was grabbing
that strange port.

Sorry about that.  Duh!

Thanks to all who helped.

--Michael

 > 
 >  > 
 >  > Hope it helps.
 >  > 
 >  > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:11:29AM -0500, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
 >  > > When I run nmap on my linux bok (Mandrake 8.1) I get this strange port:
 >  > > 
 >  > >      32772/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc7
 >  > > 
 >  > > Anyone know what this is?
 >  > > 
 >  > > Thanks,
 >  > > 
 >  > > Michael
 >  > > 
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 >  > Randy Janinda
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 > 




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