opening ports

[Mike Klinke]

On Monday 30 January 2006 11:08, Gerhard Magnus wrote:

> I'm running FC4 and KDE.  What's the best tool to use to
> open/close ports 

If you're talking about firewalls, iptables, webmin, etc.

If you're talking about specific daemons then each will have it's 
own configuration for this.

If you're just wanting to attach a general purpose application to a 
port for general usage, look at netcat.

> and then to keep track of their status? 

netstat, lsof