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Forum Topic - QNX Security Audit - Discard Service: (3 Items)
   
QNX Security Audit - Discard Service  
We use v6.3 of the QNX operating system. A recent security audit has advised us to close the Discard service port (9) on
 the system.

I am comfortable with linux but not qnx.

can someone tell me what to change and where.

thanks..

Re: QNX Security Audit - Discard Service  
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:23AM -0400, Sachin Naik wrote:
> We use v6.3 of the QNX operating system. A recent security audit has advised us to close the Discard service port (9) 
on the system.
> 
> I am comfortable with linux but not qnx.
> 
> can someone tell me what to change and where.
> 

Comment out the service in /etc/inetd.conf.
slay and restart inetd.

Regards,

-seanb
RE: QNX Security Audit - Discard Service  
Cool, thanks for the info.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Boudreau [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:26 PM
To: general-community
Subject: Re: QNX Security Audit - Discard Service

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:00:23AM -0400, Sachin Naik wrote:
> We use v6.3 of the QNX operating system. A recent security audit has advised us to close the Discard service port (9) 
on the system.
>
> I am comfortable with linux but not qnx.
>
> can someone tell me what to change and where.
>

Comment out the service in /etc/inetd.conf.
slay and restart inetd.

Regards,

-seanb



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