On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I just did a port scan on one of my web sites. Shared Hosting. Looking
at ports 1863, 3000 and 3001. Are those ports normally open or
something I should file a support ticket about? TIA!

Port State Service
21 open ftp
22 open ssh
25 open smtp
80 open http
110 open pop3
143 open imap
443 open https
993 open imaps
995 open pop3s
1863 open msnp
3000 open hbci
3001 open redwood-broker
3306 open mysql
5190 open aol
5432 open postgres


Ports are 'open' when you start programs that listen on them.  lsof should tell you what those programs are.

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If it is shared hosting, maybe he doesn't have root.  But yes lsof and even better,
netstat -anp | grep -v "^unix"
The -anp has netstat give the Process name along with the port Number for All services.