[OpenIndiana-discuss] gnome errors and "non-local listeners" message

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/ 7/12 08:11 AM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> Thanks.  /var/tmp/orbit-rhb turns out to be some very old cruft lying around.  Not sure of the origin, but it's gone now.  Appears to have been from some testing I did when I installed OI_148 as it was owned by user "tst" which exists in /etc/passwd, but has an empty home directory.  I have no recollection of it, but that's not unusual :-(
> 
> It was the "non-local" part that puzzled me since it referenced ports on the local host.

It means they're listening for remote connections and aren't just
restricted to the local host.  (i.e. they're IPv4 & IPv6 sockets,
not Unix domain sockets)

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