Questions concerning Security Log

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 8 08:09:40 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:57 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> If you're not currently using ssh you could turn it off until such time
> as you're going to start using it:
> # service sshd stop
> # chkconfig sshd off

I should of course add that it's good practise to turn off *all*
services that you're not actually using, particularly on an Internet-
connected machine.

You can try this to see what services are listening for incoming
connections:
# netstat -lp -A inet

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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