From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 07:53:14 EDT
Lydiard:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:
> > [mailto:] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema
> > Subject: Re: Open ports..
>
> > Lydiard:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > As soon as I turn postfix on I get the following ports
> > turned on. When
> > > I did this last week, I only had 25 turned on in addition
> > to 22, 80 and
> > > 3306
> > >
> <snip>
>
> > What ports are open after you type "postfix stop"?
> >
> > Wietse
>
> Hi Wietse.
>
> Thanks. After I run postfix stop, I get the following.
>
> Port State Service
> 22/tcp open ssh
> 80/tcp open http
> 3306/tcp open mysql
>
> This is to be expected, because I have apache running and SSH open for
> administration.
>
> Last week when I ran postfix start, I had the following.
>
> Port State Service
> 22/tcp open ssh
> 25/tcp open smtp
> 80/tcp open http
> 3306/tcp open mysql
>
> Since then the only thing I have done is copy the /etc/localtime and
> /lib/libnss_wins.so and winbind.so to a location in /var/spool/postfix
> as I was getting errors when running postfix check. This was following
> advice I googled for and found on this list. Postfix check is now
> clean, but as I said, all these open ports appear. I don't mind some of
> them, but I definitely don't want ftp and such things open!
And why did you believe it was Postfix that opens the telnet and ftp
ports? Who else has root privileges on this machine?
Wietse
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