On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do > about: > > 9 open tcp discard > 13 open tcp daytime > 37 open tcp time > 113 open tcp auth > 119 open tcp nntp > > Can someone explain me what these services are and if I can safely > turn them off?
There is some information in the config file.. Yes you can stop them .. I think you can find all of them in /etc/inetd.conf just comment out the relevant lines (should be obvious).