I ran the scans at www.grc.com against my Mandrake 7.1 and determined that I
had commented out almost all of the server programs like, ftp, finger,
telnet, ident, etc. I have the automatic install of 7.1, which littered my
computer with loads of running processes. There are several processes that
still run at boot, and I am reluctant to arbitrarily disable them without
knowing what they do. Here's the specific problem:

The "grc" port probe shows that my port 25 SMTP is open. What Mandrake
program should I disable to close this SMTP port?

Are there any other FAQs out there for the Mandrake newbie sysadmin that
describe which programs you should disable and which ones you need to keep
going?


 - William Arndt   http://members.home.net/arndtw/


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