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 > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > as root, in a rext console, type "InteractiveBastille", without the quotes, > noteing the caps > >
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