From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 8 14:19:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEEF937B422 for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 385391C6E; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:19:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:19:40 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: David Liu Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation suggestion Message-ID: <20000908171940.C47559@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dliu@mindspring.com on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:31:08PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:31:08PM -0400, David Liu wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to secure my Freebsd 4.1 server by following the handbook and > disabled > inetd.conf and as many of the services which I don't need. A nmap port scan > stiil show that > many of my ports are still open. Please address this in your handbook. I > need to know for example why port 12345 is open and how to shut it down. Either nmap is wrong or you really didn't boot with the config file that you showed us or you have other processes running. In other words, the problem is you. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message