Tip of the Day: Easily Close a Port in Linux

    You can easily see what are the ports in use with the command:

    nmap localhost

    Or:

    nmap <YOUR_IP>

    The output can be something like:

    $ nmap localhost

    Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-01-19 23:45 EET
    Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
    Not shown: 1711 closed ports
    PORT STATE SERVICE
    25/tcp open smtp
    80/tcp open http
    111/tcp open rpcbind
    113/tcp open auth

    Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.066 seconds

    To close a port, you can use the following command as root:

    fuser -k 80/tcp

    Which will close port 80 (used by the web server).Source URL: http://ashesgarrett.blogspot.com/2009/01/tip-of-day-easily-close-port-in-linux.html
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