From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 29 13:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA95537C164 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5TKIB816828; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:18:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:18:11 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Hank Wethington Cc: BSD Subject: Re: open ports question Message-ID: <20000629131811.U275@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bsd@info-logix.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:43:45PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Hank Wethington [000629 12:47] wrote: > Greetings, > > I was checking security on my machine by doing a portscan when I noticed > some ports open that I felt shouldn't be. I would like to know how to close > them. > > I have already taken out all the needed info from inetd.conf, like finger, > but the finger port is listening. It won't give info, but it is listening. > Others are listening too. Your help is appreciated. Have you hup'd inetd? As far as the rest of the ports you're asking about, how exactly are we to know what they are if you don't tell us which ports? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message