Re: security questions

[Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Thomas 'Balu' Walter wrote:

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> * Kyle Hayes (kyle540@quicknet.net) [29.06.99 03:26]:
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>     ******
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> > I am trying to figure out how to turn off the admin pages and the web
> > server listening on port 7786.  I really want to turn off that port!
> 
> I don't know what I am doing different than you, but nmap says the port is
> not open at my site. I only start MV in unix-mode:
> 
> ---------- snipp

Yeah, I looked in the ~/bin directory, and finally read the names of the
commands.  Running either restart_unix or start_unix fixes the problem.
Sigh.  I still did not find it mentioned in the online docs.  I think I am
looking under the wrong things.  

One thing I did notice was that at certain times, it looks like a SAINT
scan could cause the internal webserver to put MV into an odd state.  When
we were testing our internal network security, I had to restart MV a
couple of times.  Without the open Internet port, I don't seem to have
that problem.  It might be the fact that Apache was also down at the time,
but I am not sure.  I haven't tried to duplicate the effect yet, so this
isn't a bug report.  If I get some time, I will try to duplicate it.

Best,
Kyle