Re: Need help blocking all ports except a few
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:13 am, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:02:36AM -0600, Eric MacAdie wrote:
> > Patrick Lesslie wrote:
> > >You can stop inetd altogether, and lpd, portmap and dhclient - in fact
> > >most of these things by experimentally removing links from /etc/rc2.d/
> > >and possibly also from /etc/rcS.d/
> >
> > Could you also stop services by simply changing the permissions of the
> > scripts in /ett/init.d/ ?
>
> Typically the links are modified instead because then you can still
> do "/etc/init.d/some_service start" when you do want it. But yes,
> you could do that. If you're going to change them like that though,
> might be best to remove the packages.
If you don't want the services to run at startup you can also use update-rc.d
like so :
boxen# update-rc.d -f packagename remove
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