Re: Gnome Panel items and TCP ports

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On 18 Mar 2001 20:37:38 +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do periodic nmap scans on one machine that has some important services
> installed on it. I have also installed GNOME on that machine. When I log on
> to that machine, I do get the GNOME control panel to make the interaction a
> little more colorful. A port scan conducted during my login session show that
> different applets on the control panel use different ports on the system.
> I have blocked these ports using ipchains. The bigger problem is, on a different
> login session, the applets were using different ports. 



> Is this normal behaviour of the GNOME applets?

yes.  if you don't want the applets binding to tcp sockets, put this in
either your ~/.orbitrc or `gnome-config --sysconfdir`/orbitrc:

ORBIIOPUSock=1
ORBIIOPIPv4=0
ORBIIOPIPv6=0

jacob
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