Hi All, Another newbie question. I edited my inetd.conf and commented out ftp, telnet, shell, login, pop3, finger and swat and rebooted. Everything seems to work ok. nmap -sT -v my ip shows these 22 ssh 37 time 111 sunrpc 515 printer 1024 kdm 6000 X11 nmap -sU my ip shows these 37 time 111 sunrpc 517 talk 518 ntalk Questions are these. First, is what I commented out ok? secondly, is it safe to comment out talk, ntalk, and time in inetd.conf as well? Secondly...how about ssh,sunrpc,printer and X11? Is it safe and where do I shut them down at? If you could just give me a site that would explain this to me I would be very grateful. As I said, I am new and just don't want to make any mistakes configuring or to take an unsecured machine out on the net. Thanks in advance, Dallam