[SunHELP] Shutting down ports...

[Wesley A. Wannemacher]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:49:45 -0600, "Jeff Feller" <jeff at bitz.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've asked this before and I think the answer was to remove files or rename
> files in /etc/rc* or something.. but, I have a bunch of ports open on my
> Solaris 8 machine and I'd like to close them.
> 
> Port       State       Service
> 21/tcp     open        ftp
> 22/tcp     open        ssh
> 25/tcp     open        smtp
> 80/tcp     open        http
> 110/tcp    open        pop-3
> 111/tcp    open        sunrpc
> 4045/tcp   open        lockd
> 6000/tcp   open        X11
> 32775/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc13
> 32776/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc15
> 32777/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc17
> 32778/tcp  open        sometimes-rpc19
> 
> All I need is ftp, ssh, smtp, httpd, and pop3 ... What's the easiest/best way
> to do it?  Thanks.
> 
> Jeff Feller
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man inetd
man inetd.conf

This should give you a much more solid understanding of why these services are
being started. Then after you are done with that, you might also want to: 

man iinit


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Wesley Wannemacher
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