[CentOS] daytime service on port 13

Fri Jan 25 18:54:08 UTC 2008
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of the centos 5.1 servers was scanned by a customer and
> he suggests turning off daytime on port 13.
> When I look at /etc/xinetd.d/daytime* the 2 files say
> disabled yes
>
>
> So is there something else I should be looking at ?


as root run:
netstat -anp | grep 13 | grep LISTEN

or fuser -n tcp 13

to find the PID that is using port 13, perhaps you have
a regular inetd running at the same time as xinetd.

nate