Re: some ports closed in Fedora

Also, wanted to know how to prevent remote root ftp login in fedora.

On 2/3/07, Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Harpreet Dhaliwal <harpreet(dot)dhaliwal01(at)gmail(dot)com> schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
> > though this is not directly related to postgres, but i was wondering why
> are
> > most of the ports seen closed
> > when one does nmap scan of these ports. Whats reason can we attribute to
> the
> > fact that most of the ports in an OS are
> > in closed state.
>
> A port is 'closed', if no process is listen on this port. You can use
> 'netstat -tulpen' or similar commands to list open ports and processes
> which are in LISTEN state.
>
>
> Andreas
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