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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2000 06:03:17 -0400
From:      "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>
To:        "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Bennett Hui" <bhui@mail.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: how do you close port 587: unknown service?
Message-ID:  <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPCEBACGAA.otterr@telocity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001018114559.C9003@gray.westgate.gr>

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and if you don't know what app had the port open, there's always the
output of "sockstat".
-Otter


}-----Original Message-----
}From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Giorgos
}Keramidas
}Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 4:46 AM
}To: Bennett Hui
}Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}Subject: Re: how do you close port 587: unknown service?
}
}
}On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:32:24AM -0700, Bennett Hui wrote:
}>
}> It would be great if anyone knew what port 587 was used
}for (it just
}> came with my install of 4.1.1-RELEASE), but more
}importantly how can
}> I close it off.  I suppose the quick and easy way would be to block
}> it off with ipfw, but is there a line in a config file where I can
}> disable this service?
}
}It's the MSA port of Sendmail, documented in the usual place, i.e.
}/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README.  You can see the
}following in your
}sendmail.cf file:
}
}    O DaemonPortOptions=Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E
}
}and you can close it if you like with:
}
}    FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl
}
}Ciao.
}
}--
}Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> For my public pgp2 key:
}finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr
}
}
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