gnome tcp ports (including 2000)

[dwilkins <dwilkins kent edu>]

Hello,

I was wondering if some of you out there could help me out.  I just installed 
RH6 and I told it to install Gnome.  Now when I log in and do a netstat -a I 
don't see any tcp ports that are active.  But when I startx, and get gnome 
working, and do a netstat in my xterm, I get all sorts of ports over 1000 
running in addition to the normal port 2000 that the window manager runs on.

Here's my question: is there any way to turn all of those ports off or 
alternatively, not allow anybody from the outside world to access them?  I 
want as secure a system as possible.  Is there a flag for compilation maybe 
that lets me get rid of those ports?  I can't seem to find any answers in the 
documentation, but maybe I'm not looking in the right place.

Thanks,

Derek