disabling services (QSC *& EPMAP)

[Grant Wenstrand]

All,

I am currently in the process of disabling certain services on an HPUX 10.20 system (NFS, SENDMAIL, etc..), and I am having a most difficult time understanding two of the currently active services--QSC (port 787) and EPMAP (port 135).

Would someone be so kind as to answer the following questions?:

- What are these services used for?

- What would commonly be dependent upon them.

- What do I risk by disabling them?

- Where may I can disable them if I deem it necessary?

And finally, if someone can think of something that I should know, but didn't ask, that would also be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Grant

[Patrick Wallek]

Check in your /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and see if there is any explanation for the QSC and EPMAP services. It sounds to me like those are from some 3rd party application. Those are not standard HP-UX services, at least as far as I know.

If you were to disable those, you run the risk of breaking whatever application may be running via those 2 ports / services.

To disable those, or any other services, you should first check /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and just comment them out. If they are not there, check the startup scripts and see if any application startup starts anything on those ports. You should be able to control the application startup from /etc/rc.config.d files.