What ports in particular? Some ports are controlled by a program called xinetd, a "superserver"; others are controlled by one specific program. Example: SSH is controlled by the OpenSSH program, but telnet is part of the xinetd superserver. Try this command (as root): netstat --listening --program It should show you a list of what programs are listening on what port. It will give you names instead of numbers (i.e., "ssh" instead of "22"). Give it the --numeric option if you want numbers rather than names. Please reply with the output of that command. Unlike Windows, Linux actually has reasons to have ports open - any Mandrake machine can be logged into remotely (and securely) by using the SSH protocol, for example. Ask for more of an explanation if you need one. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I visited the self scan page and there are some ports open. how to close > ports? I tried closing them using firewall, nothing happened. I have > used linuxconf to stop service using these ports, but they'r estill > open. mandrake 7.1 had an application to close ports, but it's not > available in M 8.0, i want to close this ports, how to do it
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