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Re: [cobalt-users] Closing port 23



On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tom Nelson wrote:

> Can anyone tell me the proper way to turn off the telnet port?
>
> I have disabled it in the GUI of my Raq3 w/Raq 4 OS...
>
> But I can still "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25" and log in...
>
> I believe spammers may be using this to conduct business...
>

Make sure it is commented out in /etc/inetd.conf
then execute [ all on one line]

/etc/rc.d/init.d/inet stop; /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet start

Gerald
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