How do you close ports and/or shut down servers running on these ports (is this synonymous?). I run Mandrake 7.1 and I need to find an answer to this because my @Home service provider has informed me that I cannot have servers running on my machine (obviously set up by default since I don't know how to set them up). This is not allowed according to the contract because it allows mail relaying (spam). In other words they will cut me off if it is not fixed. Their tests indicated that the following ports/servers were open/running: Port State Service 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open sunrpc 113/tcp open auth 515/tcp open printer 6000/tcp open X11 Running 'netsys -a' confirmed the above. I commented out fields in /etc/inetd.conf for any (all) services I don't need, but of course the above services are not in this file. I then tried commenting out the above services (that I could find) in /etc/services, but this didn't seem to do anything (and yes, I rebooted because I don't know how to properly reset the system any other way). [As an aside, what IS the effect of commenting out services from /etc/services? It doesn't look serious...yet.] I read that I may have to do something with the files in /etc/rc.d, but the instructions seemed to based on a different directory layout than is used by Mandrake/Red Hat. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
