Re: System security question

2001-01-06 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
"Marco C ." wrote: > and I have another question: my netstat revealed these strange ports: > tcp0 0 *:6000 *:*LISTEN This is the X server, if I am not mistaken. IHMO nothing to worry about. > tcp0 0 *:1024 *:*LISTEN Dunno, what

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Marco C .
Il 5 gennaio 2001 (venerdì), alle 13:08, Nathan E Norman ha scritto: > have a printer then don't run lpd. If you have a printer but only > print locally, I think you can unbind the tcp port but I'd have to ^^^ what does it mean? how can I do this

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
If you are printing locally I would suggest pdq and xpdq. Read about them on www.linuxprinting.org You can apt-get them from unstable and I think testing. If you just make a sym link called lpd pointing to pdq alot of things work very well. -- Original Message -

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:15:53AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: > Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: > > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > *:printer This is lpd. You only need this if your mascine has a printer atteched to it AND accepts print jobs from

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Smith
I don't like sunrpc hanging out at all exposed to the world. I get probed regularly on it. Block it out with /etc/hosts.deny the following way: PORTMAP : ALL I usually install ipchains on my box and then block out the ports I don't want exposed with: ipchains -F #remove all the rules, the defaul

Re: System security question

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Martin Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: # Is it safe to leave it as it is? I've closed of all services in # inetd.conf and I'm using Firestarter as my firewall. I'm a little # paranoid that my system is listening for connections. But I

System security question

2001-01-05 Thread Martin Bishop
Hi, Netstat shows the following services on my home machine: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *