On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:32:23PM +0100, Waider wrote:
> According to Ray Dermody:
> > After running a portscan on one of out 7.2 servers I noticed that port
> > 113 is open. I am pretty sure that we dont need this and would wish to
> > shut this service down.
> > I have looked through /etc/identd.conf but can't see anything particular.
> > Any help anybody?
> That would be identd. Some services (IRC, some smtp) won't talk to you
> if they can't get an answer of some sort from identd.
which is silly since identd is not to be believed. i think in rh7.2
it runs on it's own so the netstat command will find it. if it's run
from inetd, then netstat will show inetd as the process associated
with that port. in that case, grep /etc/services for 113 and then
grep /etc/inetd.conf (or the xinetd conf files if you're using xinetd)
for 113 or whatever /etc/services thinks that port is called. 113 is
usually identd, but then if john looney's been around the box who knows
what it could be - smtp for instance... :)
kevin
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