Please help, I need to open a port...

Hello all,I am a newbie to Solaris, I have the need to open port #36678 on a server running Solaris 8. I am sure it is simple but just do not know where to start, I have ran a netstat -a and it is not listening now.Thank you in advance.
[257 byte] By [komputersmana] at [2007-11-27 6:29:48]
# 1
Open for what ?What prg do you have on that port ?
sboffina at 2007-7-12 17:54:02 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...
# 2

> Hello all,

> I am a newbie to Solaris, I have the need to open

> port #36678 on a server running Solaris 8. I am sure

> it is simple but just do not know where to start, I

> have ran a netstat -a and it is not listening now.

Administrators do not open ports on a machine. Applications open ports as they run.

So you would launch a program, and it would try to use the port.

Presumably you have some such program in mind?

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Darren

Darren_Dunhama at 2007-7-12 17:54:02 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris Essentials - General Technical Questions...