Thanks Craig (and everyone) netstat is what I was looking for. nmap is 
*not* on this server. They were concerned that there was already 
activity on a port so I needed to see about that. I'm installing nmap 
now. btw iptables doesn't seem to be up and running. should it be on a 
RH 7.1? (I know it is on 7.2 and is *not* on 7.0). The plan is to leave 
them with something they can check when I'm done, and I don't think 
they'd be able to handle iptables from the command line (what is it 
about the command line that freaks newbies out?) Anyways I sort of 
remember using a gui front end for nmap a *long* time ago but don't 
remember which one. Does anyone have a suggestion for a easy to learn 
nmap frontend?

Carl P.

Craig White wrote:

> Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
>>Telnet?
>>
>>On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is there anything like nmap on a *default* install of Redhat? I guess I
>>>don't really need all the features of nmap. I just need to figure out if
>>>a port is open and if its been active. Problem is I didn't set the
>>>server up and don't know what's installed. any ideas of tools I should
>>>look for? Or should I just install something? Is there any way to look
>>>up past activity on a port?
>>>
>>>Carl P.
>>>
> ------
> by default, telnet server daemon is not turned on in RH 7.1 / 7.2
> 
> the first thing you should do is ipchains -L and iptables -L - to see
> what ports are blocked.
> 
> then you should netstat -an to see what ports are listening
> 
> and finally, you can install nmap - if you don't find it on the cd's
> distributed by RH - which I am too lazy to check right now, you are
> certain to find it on freshmeat.net or
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/libc6/i386/
> 
> Craig
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