on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:05:42PM -0600, Dave Sherohman (esper@sherohman.org) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:39:18PM +0100, William Leese wrote: > > to me, this doesn't look good. half of these services i know i do not have > > installed, neither do they show up on a ps aux. I'm running tcpwrappers and > > portsentry, could this have something to do with it? > > Yes. portsentry listens on many ports (including all unused but > 'interesting' ones) and reports on attempts to connect to them. If you're > running portsentry and want to see what ports are meaningfully open on the > box, you have to temporarily shut down portsentry while the scan is > performed. snort is recommended over portsentry for this particular reason. I'm running portsentry but will likely switch. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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