All,
   Coming from the BSD world I can say that to "close" a port I would simply edit 
/etc/services and comment out (add a # sign) at the front of every line for a port and 
service I didn't need/want running.  Wouldn't this work the same in Linux?  If not, 
does anyone know why?

James

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:49:38 -0400
etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Friday 21 September 2001 17:12, you 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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> as root, in a rext console, type "InteractiveBastille", without the quotes, 
> noteing the caps
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