postmaster LISTENing on UDP port 32938
Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why
postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose?
If it's not required how to disable?
rhubbell wrote:
Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why
postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose?
If it's not required how to disable?
It should just be localhost and I believe it's the stats collector
talking to the rest of the system.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
rhubbell wrote:
Found this on a recent install. I don't find anything documented on why
postmaster is LISTENing on this port. What's the purpose?
If it's not required how to disable?
It should just be localhost and I believe it's the stats collector
talking to the rest of the system.
Also, the socket has been connect()'d to itself, which means that it is
impossible for any non-database process to send to it anyway (barring
your kernel being subverted, in which case this is the least of your
worries). There's no security hole here.
regards, tom lane