[olug] users.olug.org
ktb
xyf at nixnotes.org
Wed Mar 12 00:10:20 UTC 2003
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:19:09PM -0600, Jonathan Warren wrote:
> I was tryign to find what my open ports I had on my box. I downloaded nmap to users.olug.org and built it and installed it into my home directory. Everything I scan with it reports that port 21 is open. Any idea why it would say that? It seems very strange to me.
What is "everything you scan?" 21/tcp is generally used for ftp. You
can grep though /etc/services to find that information. Sounds like you
have an ftp server running on your system.
hth,
kent
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