[Gllug] services

[Paul Brazier]

> I nmapped my workstation just for a lark (as you do) and noticed that 
> three services listening.  Sendmail shouldn't have been running so I 
> just turned it off, but the other two, X11 and sunrpc I am 
> not too sure 
> about.  If I can turn them off, how, and if I shouldn't, how 
> do I stop 
> them listening for external connections?

Did you do the nmap from the machine itself or from another one?

I think it's "rpcinfo -p" tells you what's using the sunrpc service -
it's usually just NFS I think uses it so it should be OK turning it off
altogether.

Linuxconf should be able to easily turn on/off services and get them to
stay that way when re-booting.

Not sure about hiding X11 from outside connections but it's probably a
.conf file somewhere in the /etc directory.


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