what's running?

[LuckyTaxi]

I tried installing proftp on my freebsd box. Well, i finally got it to work, and it says it can't bind to port 21. seems ANOTHER ftp program
is using that port. how can i check to see wut it is, and what's attached to other ports for future references!

thanks

 

[LuckyTaxi]

it's a program called 'inetd'
what is it?

 

[unixmandan]

You don't want to touch inetd, that's the internet daemon, it's a process that controls all internet stuff

if you want to see what's running, type "ps -aux", this will show you all the programs currently running, how much memory\cpu time they are using. Type "top" to see what's using the most cpu and memory

I'm not sure how to see what ports are currently in use... monkey will probably know

 

[LuckyTaxi]

yea...i figured out after doing research that 'inetd' is a daemon. no wonder when i killed it my telnet & ftp didn't work.
anyways, i used 'socketstat' to see what was running on port 21. 'inetd' was.
can i close the port by some sort of command in inetd.conf

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< yea...i figured out after doing research that 'inetd' is a daemon. no wonder when i killed it my telnet & ftp didn't work.
anyways, i used 'socketstat' to see what was running on port 21. 'inetd' was.
can i close the port by some sort of command in inetd.conf >>



Comment out ftp in inetd.conf

EDIT: I would also comment out telnet, echo, portmapper, and most of what is in there. I leave ident open because I irc too much, but I dont run anything else. Also install the OpenSSH port in FreeBSD because it is better than telnet.