nmap on Redhat?

[Patrick Fleming EA]

How about nmapFE? It's on the nmap website: 
http://www.nmap.org/nmap/nmap_download.html

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Carl Parrish wrote:

> 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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