[techtalk] Open Ports

[Jamie Walker]

moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:

> Hey All,
>         It seems as though I have port 79 opened (finger). I have it
> commented out in inetd so I can't figure out where else it would be coming
> from. Any ideas??

As root, try netstat -ap | grep LISTEN, the -p will tell you which
process is listening on a particular port.

(the -p option doesn't appear in earlier versions of netstat, the
version shipped with RH5.2 for example doesn't have it but 6.0 does)

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