At 05.12.2001, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > > You're not going to become a good Linux-administrator before you realize > > that you should UNDERSTAND what you do instead of just guessing and be > > happy because it worked. > Becoming a good administrator is making it work and keeping it working. Yes and this is possible if you _understand_ what you are doing. > It > seems there is an official way of closing the ports and an unofficial > (wrong?) way of doing it. No, with editing /etc/services you never close a port. An open port is just a port on wich a process is listening. What happend on your computer is, that some processes tryes to fugure out, wich port number to use for $service. Therefor it takes a look at /etc/services to get the information, wich portnumber to use. You dont disble any services. You only made some changes that some processes dont know on wich port to bind. > Understanding is gained, among others through > experience, and this is quite an experience judging by quantity of replies Do it the right way (stopping the service it self) or dont do it. Guido
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