The only thing you can accomplish by commenting stuff in /etc/services is that netstat and other programs will show the ports by number instead of by name ( you commented the translation entry ) :) The ports are still open.
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 07:59 am, J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz wrote: > > Did you even read all things said in this thread? > > Of course I did (er, am reading) read it. All these comments are very > insightful and I am saying that I am surprised, because commenting out > services in /etc/services has been working for me for the most part. Not to > add that the ports I posted previously are closed by commenting them out of > /etc/services even though this is NOT the proper way to disable ports. > > J. Paul Bruns-Bielkowicz > http://www.america.prv.pl
