How to get tcp listen port

[Thiago Macieira]

Joshua Swink wrote:
>How can I determine what TCP port dbus-daemon is listening on?
>
>I have set my system dbus-daemon to listen on a system-selected port,
>which it does. I can determine the port as root (e.g., sudo netstat
>-ptl). But how can I get the port 1) with user privileges, and 2)
>without rebooting?
>
>My best current guess would be to modify the init script,
>/etc/init.d/dbus, to use the "--print-address" option and to save the
>output somewhere like /var/run/dbus/addresses. I was just wondering if
>there is a better way.

Save it in an environment variable (DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS). That's how 
client applications find the bus.

The same applies to the system bus (DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS).
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