From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Sep 8 17:27:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp28fe.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.128.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E111C37B59E for ; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ufl.edu (neti.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.235.15]) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/2.2.1) with ESMTP id UAA219020; Fri, 8 Sep 2000 20:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <39B983E0.5574C0A9@ufl.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:27:13 -0400 From: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en, en-GB, eo, de, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Liu Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documentation suggestion References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Liu wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to secure my Freebsd 4.1 server by following the handbook and > disabled > inetd.conf and as many of the services which I don't need. A nmap port scan > stiil show that > many of my ports are still open. Please address this in your handbook. I > need to know for example why port 12345 is open and how to shut it down. > > Thanks for your help and a great product, > The port scan doesn't match your config file. If you didn't reboot after editing the config file, then try rebooting and scanning again. After you do that, if things aren't what you expect, post the scan and the rc.conf, plus the result of "ps -ax", to questions@freebsd.org. If, during this process, you can identify what specific shortcoming in the documentation caused you difficulty, please post that information to the doc list. Actually, now that you mention it, I can't even find instructions on disabling inetd.conf in the Handbook. Were you reading the Handbook, or a tutorial, or the FAQ, or The Complete FreeBSD? Thanks, - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message