Mystery ports 602 603

[Gerry Doris]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Kevin Worthington wrote:

> > After upgrading a couple of systems to Fedora I've noticed that I now have 
> > port 602 open on one system and port 603 on another.  What are these ports 
> > used for?
> I don't see that on any of my Fedora systems. However, try:
> 
> nmap -a -v -sV -p 602-603 localhost
> 
> to find out. ( you must have nmap installed)
> 
> HTH,
> Kev

Thanks.  For what it's worth these ports are used by rpc.rquota which is 
part of the quota package.  rquota is used to determine quotas for nfs 
mounted volumes.

I don't use quotas and don't like having these ports open (even if I'm 
behind a firewall.  I think I'll just remove the package.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer