Many thanks, Steve and Steven, for the wealth of info on this that
you've both set before me.
Steve wrote:
> Did you try 'netstat -tupan' ? If it works the same
> on your distro as it does on Caldera and Red Hat, the
> information given there is likely more relevant.
>
I've just run that and (with apologies for being tedious) here's the
output:
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Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:513 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:514 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:515 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 89/lpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:37 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 107/sendmail: accep
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:79 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 70/rpc.portmap
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:113 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 84/sshd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 81/inetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 107/sendmail: accep
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:512 0.0.0.0:* 81/inetd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:518 0.0.0.0:* 81/inetd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:137 0.0.0.0:* 81/inetd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:37 0.0.0.0:* 81/inetd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* 70/rpc.portmap
========
I got this by running 'netstat -tupan' without yet disabling
anything. Was this what you wanted? I'm about to try turning off the
various things as suggested....
Gerald.