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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:36:17 -0500
From:      "Peter Avalos" <pavalos@theshell.com>
To:        "Wolfgang Drews" <drews@dynamic-webpages.de>, <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: closing ports
Message-ID:  <AAEMIFFLKPKLAOJHJANHEEJFCFAA.pavalos@theshell.com>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBIADNALBOADKLEAOCGEABCFAA.drews@dynamic-webpages.de>

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> on ...). Now i tought, "well, search the services-file in /etc/ and
> try to close them in it", but that seems to be the wrong way. Can
> you maybe help me, and tell me, how to close all those ports i do
> not need? (A link to a documentation about it would maybe be enough).

The services file is just a 'map' of numbers to names. In order to close
these ports, you have to kill the processes that listening on those ports.
First, comment everything out in /etc/inetd.conf that you don't need, then
killall -HUP inetd. After that, check /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf
to make sure nothing is getting started at boot time that you don't want
running. To get a list of ports that are 'open' try `netstat -an | grep
LISTEN`.


Peter Avalos
TheShell.com



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