How to disable port/service in Ubuntu 8.04

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:18 +0530, Ashish Yadav wrote:
> That is my question, *how* to stop it from running?
> >From example if there is http server running and I don''t want it to
> run when my system starts where do I go and make changes?
> I could very simply do that by renaming scripts in init based systems,
> here I don't have clue.

In Ubuntu, most services are started and stopped using scripts
in /etc/init.d. See "man update-rc.d" for a relatively easy way to make
any changes permanent.

> I have firestarter running, however that also doesn't provide a method
> to close the ports.

No, but it can block them. Which is a good thing to do.

Regards, K.

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