netstat shows lots of weird enteries

[winex_user]

After running netstat -ne I get lots of weird enteries, most of them are from /tmp/
Is this normal? What are these?
thx

smaple:
Active UNIX domain sockets (w/o servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node Path
unix 10 [ ] DGRAM 935 /dev/log
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11188 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 11187
unix 2 [ ] DGRAM 9578
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9397 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9396
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9121 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 9120

[Kai99]

Hi winex,

These are perfectly normal. Probably it is gnome or some such application. This command will help narrow down what applications have the communications opened to the /tmp dir.

netstat --all --programs

Hope it helps,

Kai

[winex_user]

thx for the info,
what is a Unix socket anyway?