RE: [cobalt-users] Is anything wrong

[cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>On Sat, 4 May 2002 cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hope you don't mind me butting into this thread, but I have the following
>> running on RaQ4i.
>> I'm a little concerned on the number and type "ircd"? (Is this IRC)
"nntp"?
>> (News).
>
>ircd is (normally)  irc server program, yes (Internet relay chat) kinda
>.a weird thing to have running on a web server....
>
>nntpd would be a usenet news server....ditto
>
>You have a lot of listening ports...you running portsentry? If so, the
>ports open may be meaningless, as it's just portsentry listening for
>interesting things to wander in...
>
>>
>> tcp        0      0 *:52                    *:*
LISTEN
>hmm
>gsh

Thanks for the tips.

I'm still not sure why the following services are running and how to turn
them off.
Like most people here, I hate open ports (I'd turn them all off... but ;-) )

tcp        0      0 *:imap2                 *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:nntp                  *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:finger                *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:netstat               *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:systat                *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0      0 *:tcpmux                *:*                     LISTEN

I have modified /etc/inetd.conf to disable all but the minimum.
For example "Finger" is commented out in inetd.conf, so why is it listed?

Many thanks
Andy