Re: what are these? discard-daytime-time-nntp

[Gordon Hart <who@which.net>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> This is the output I get from nmap about things I am not sure what to do
> about:
> 
> 9       open        tcp        discard
> 13      open        tcp        daytime
> 37      open        tcp        time
> 113     open        tcp        auth
> 119     open        tcp        nntp
> 
> Can someone explain me what these services are and if I can safely
> turn them off?

There is some information in the config file.. Yes you can stop them 
.. I think you can find all of them in 

/etc/inetd.conf

just comment out the relevant lines (should be obvious).