This depends on your server. If the server tries to get the portnumber on which to listen from the services file (get_servbyname) then this would work. But NOT if the the server has a numeric port number in its config (like apache). On 21-Sep-2001 James Sparenberg wrote: > 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 >> >> > ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24-Sep-2001 Time: 08:46:00 ----------------------------------
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