Enabling Ports 6000-6005 Solaris 8 via the shell 1

[bobby76]

Hi

I am trying to enable ports 6000-6005 on Solaris 8 to allow an X-Win session, does anybody know the correct syntax for this?

I have used:
#netstat -a -f inet |grep LISTEN |more
to check which ports are currently open and 6000-6005 are closed.

Many thanks in advance to anybody who can help.
B

 

[SamBones]

If there's nothing currently listening to those ports, they are available for use. The state of LISTEN means that there is currently a process that is running that is listening for incoming connections at that port. LISTEN means it's already in use, or taken by a process.

If there is nothing listening to those ports, they are not "closed", there's just nothing currently using them? If they are not listed, they are free for you to use them.