Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Close some ports

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you guys think of firewalling the port with ipchains from connections
coming from eth0?
or have him only bind to 127.0.0.1 via his config?

  Best regards,
     shimi [mailto:shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Craig Napier wrote:

> >>I actually tried this (to disable IMAP), but I didn't restart inetd - so I 
> >>guess that explains why moments latter I was greeted with the amber 
> >>flashing <blink>DANGER-DANGER!!</blink> message.
> >
> >No, in fact, it will make it mad ;) I forgot about that miserable thing... 
> >I suppose it's no worse getting logs saying the imap server is dead as 
> >opposed to getting logs saying Idiot_Monitor can't log in, but ideally it 
> >would be better to figure out how to make the machine stop thinking imap
> >is something you want running ;0
> >
> >sub repair_cpu
> ># Fix the CPU
> ># Arguments: none
> ># Side effects: none yet, what are we supposed to do
> >
> >  return "1020 Repair of cpu not implemented";
> >I was kind of hopeing imap check had a flag somewhere, but it appears to be 
> >'wired in' :(
> >gsh
> 
> Yep you're right... I thought I'd give it another try so I commented it out, 
> then restarted inetd. It certainly closed the port, but good old amber glow 
> whas flashing like the girls in the window across the street. :-P
> 
> So.... I pulled one of these numbers:
> 
> cd /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images
> cp a_monitor_blink.gif a_monitor_blink.gif_bkup
> cp a_monitor_off.gif a_monitor_blink.gif
> 
> At least I don't have to see the DANGER thingy everytime I go into admin, 
> and I can still check the status of different systems (disk, email, web, 
> etc) in the monitor menu. I wonder if it'll fry that little 300Mhz sitting 
> in there getting all cycled because I plugged IMAP up..? <g>.. Piss on it... 
> I like it better without the open IMAP port.. :)
> 
> Craig
> 
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