[ale] Closing ports 111 & 6000

[Bill Sirinek]

Thats not going to do it. /etc/services just maps a port number to a name.

What processes are listening on those ports,  you need to shut those down and 
then the ports will be closed.

Bill


On Friday 06 September 2002 11:07, Weston, Scott wrote:
> I am trying to close ports 111 and 6000 on my Linux box. I edited the lines
> referencing to the specific ports in /etc/services. Where else do I need to
> go to close the ports down???  Scott
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