On 14 Jun 2001 10:27 AM or thereabouts, Cam Ellison wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As you said, it is weird. What I have here is my linux box with a Samba
> server for my kids' machine, which my wife also uses, and netatalk for
> the Mac Powerbook I use for work. Yes, I have a cable modem connection
> for which I use dhcp. I have ssh set up, but have not been able to get
> the Mac set up in a way that allows me to connect, so I haven't. I have
> proftpd running, but there's only one way in -- through my username and
> password. I get regular hits on that, too, though only recently have I
> bothered to sic anyone one them.
>
> >
> > These are service (port) names. AFAIK netstat doesn't tell you process
> > names.
Yes, those are service names... but netstat *can* tell you the process
associated with a given connection:
# netstat -ap --inet
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 14158/httpd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:domain *:* LISTEN 1153/named
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 9347/sshd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 24993/inetd
Very useful. (and easier to read than lsof, IMHO)
> > > ntalk
> > > talk
> > > discard
> > > sunrpc
> I think I will leave sunrpc, but I have taken talk and talkd out. I can
> find no reference to discard. It is not in the locate db, and is not a
> Debian package. Odd. Does it ring any bells with you?
$ cat /etc/services | grep discard
discard 9/tcp sink null
discard 9/udp sink null
discard is a service left over from the old days, much like a network
/dev/null. Anything sent to it disappears. It runs out of inetd usually,
so you can (and probably should) just comment it out of /etc/inetd.conf
Also, do you export NFS shares from this machine? If you do not, I
*strongly* reccomend turning off all of your RPC services. Those daemons are
just trouble if you don't really need them. (Under debian, these services
are controlled by the 'nfs-common', 'nfs-user-server', and 'portmap'
entries in /etc/init.d/)
--Matthew
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