Hi, "J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz" wrote: > > > Commenting out things in /etc/services doesn't > > disable anything. > > It seems to. The above ports were closed just by commenting them out of > /etc/services and then rebooting.
well, there are daemons which don't know on which port they should run. they look in /etc/services for a special name and want to run on the specific port. if they don't find the special name in /etc/services they abort with an error message. so removing lines from /etc/services might help, but now, every time, when you are booting, the daemon tries to start and generates an error message. but who says, that if you do an apt-get update/upgrade, that newer versions of the same daemon does not have a default port? and why do you want to upgrade software, that you don't need? well, it is just like installing mysql and never starting it...useless. Bye Ralf
