yOn Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Steven Stern wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/05/2008 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > | 3) on the server side, what is the purpose of the *other* ports > | associated with each listening port? that is, after i start vncserver > | listening on port, say, 5917, i can see listening ports 5817 and 6017 > | suddenly active as well. what are they for? > | > > The 58xx ports fire up a java version of the VNC viewer so you can > use VNC inside a web browser. ah, i see what's happening. if i start vncserver with the "-nohttpd" option (to "prevent web-based VNC clients connecting"), then i don't get that 58xx listening port. i don't see that that's explicitly related to java, but i see what the general idea is. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
