Port listening

[kunjuttan]

Hi All,

        How to make a port listening to particular services.

[Naj]

Hi,

You may list all port by #netstat -a.
Could you please be more specific, what port are you looking for ..

[Torsten.]

A specific appilication (daemon) is listening to a specific port.

This daemon has to be run and opened this port.

For many applications this is made using inetd.

To check what ports are already "open", consider to use lsof.

[kunjuttan]

hi,

 thanks for the reply.say if i want to make a port listen to a telnet service,wht shuld i do?

[g3jza]

You need to uncomment the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf:

#telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

But I'm curious why whould you want to do that? To remotely login to the server, you should use SSH instead of telnet, because of security reasons.

After you uncomment that line, run #inetd -c
to reload inetd

[g3jza]

by uncommenting I mean remove the '#' mark from the line:
telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd

[Torsten.]

Could you please explain what you *really* want to do???

Why moving telnet away from the default port???