At 18:31 15.02.2001 -0300, you wrote: >I ran nmap on my system and found that I have a lot of open ports >(apparently I have a lot of network services running). For example, >MySQL, FTP, HTTP, etc. My question is, how much of a security risk is >this, and how do I shut of these services and/or close these ports? Does >the x11 port need to be left open for x to function? I know this must be >a common question, I tried researching all over the place, but I can't >seem to get a good understanding of how to actually do the stuff. Thanks, all! > >-Paul R paul, head over to /etc/inetd.conf and comment all services out that u dont want to offer... --quay
