open a port

DigitalSmash · 11-11-2004, 09:13 AM

This has just driven me insane, but I'm sure it's quite easy to someone here... all I want to do it open a port. Thanks a lot to whoever answers... here is all the details I think you might need, oh and I'm trying to open 8501.

Code:

# uname -r 
2.6.7-1-386
# iptables --version
iptables v1.2.11
# nmap -f -T5 localhost

Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-11-11 16:12 GMT
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):
(The 1647 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT      STATE SERVICE
9/tcp     open  discard
13/tcp    open  daytime
22/tcp    open  ssh
25/tcp    open  smtp
37/tcp    open  time
80/tcp    open  http
139/tcp   open  netbios-ssn
143/tcp   open  imap
445/tcp   open  microsoft-ds
993/tcp   open  imaps
5432/tcp  open  postgres
10000/tcp open  snet-sensor-mgmt

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 7.925 seconds

masand · 11-11-2004, 09:29 AM

hi

what service are u running on that port??
some appliacation should be listening on that port

regards

DigitalSmash · 11-11-2004, 09:35 AM

I'm trying to get http://harvest.sourceforge.net/ running, and after compiling and messing with some of the perl scripts I'm getting "Sorry, the Broker at localhost.localdomain, port 8501 is unavailable." After seeing that I nmaped and ran into this problem.

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masand · 11-11-2004, 10:42 AM

hi there

meanwhile i download and try that program of yours
could u see that the applications is installed correctly and listening because i doubt that

regards

DigitalSmash · 11-11-2004, 10:54 AM

Sorry my bad!! Didn't have the application on boot like I thought I did.
I *really* should have checked that...

Doh!!