On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:57:02PM -0700, Rene's Caltech Email wrote: > > does it mean that if the service is running then the port is running as > > well? i scanned two different linux servers...the port is open in server > > but not on the other one...i tried the commands u told me about but it > > seems it just restarted the service. any other suggestions? > > The imap services is invoked by xinetd, so it doesn't really "run". > To confirm that xinetd will start imap, do: > # netstat -apn | grep 0.0.0.0:143 > You should see a line with LISTEN on the end. > > If it's listening, but you can't get to it from another server, you may > have it blocked by your firewall rules. I don't do iptables, so if > that's the problem, post back to the list and get somebody too tell you > how to open up the port through your firewall. > > -- okay i tried: netstat -apn | grep 0.0.0.0:143 on the server with the problem and it didnt listen. does anybody know how to do iptables/mess with the firewall rules?
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