Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 17:25:18 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: User Land <userland@techie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: port 587 Message-ID: <20010103172518.B2980@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <385455476.978502358181.JavaMail.root@web596-mc>; from userland@techie.com on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 01:12:38AM -0500 References: <385455476.978502358181.JavaMail.root@web596-mc>
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Thus spake User Land (userland@techie.com): > netstat -na | grep LISTEN reports that among other expected ports listening, > so is port 587. > > /etc/services tells me that this is for service "submission", but I don't > know what that is, and I'd like to turn it (port 587) if it's not being used > (the services running on the machine are: smtp, pop3, http, ssh, ftp & smbd, > all on the standard ports). sockstat(1) will tell you which process is using the port. In this case, it is sendmail. Look up RFC2476 in an RFC archive. There is instructions in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES on how to turn it off. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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