From: "John Aldrich" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Sunday 31 July 2005 06:28 pm, John Aldrich wrote:
> > HELP! I'd really like to get my :1 session back, since that's the
session I
> > tunnel to from my Win2k box at work. :-)
> > Thanks
> > John
>
> Ok. Wez (James Weatherall) at RealVNC pointed me in the right direction to
> find out what was blocking :1. He told me to see what process was
listening
> on port 5901 using netstat -p. Unfortunately, that didn't show anything,
so
> as root, I ran "netstat -anp | grep 5901" and that showed that a process
was
> holding that port open. I looked up that process using "ps" and that told
me
> it was sshd. I killed that particular process, closed my existing VNC
session
> and restarted it and voila! I have :1 back now! :-)
And of course anybody with good sense should have been aware that you'd
be using ssh tunneling if it was used for access from outside your home.
Then the ps trick would have found the spurious sshd running.
{^_-}
