[Gllug] services

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On 11/22/01, 5:29:59 PM, will <will at hellacool.co.uk> wrote regarding 
[Gllug] services:


> All.

> 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?

sunrpc is used by remote machines wanting to use (mostly) nfs services 
(shares, etc) on your machine.  If you do not intent do use nfs then you 
can shut down the portmapper (which is the daemon in question).  X11 - 
well, that's xdm (or gdm or kdm etc) listening for connections from 
remote X clients.  Unless you want to be able to login remotely for X 
sessions, you want to stop the daemon from listening for tcp connections. 
 Precisely how you do that depends on which you have (of xdm, gdm etc).

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Bruce

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