[svlug] Server setup checklist: suggestions?

[Greg Lindahl]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:41:08AM -0700, Don Marti wrote:

> Any other items that new admins shouldn't forget
> to check before putting a machine on the big bad
> Internet?

Audit your open ports

% netstat -tanp | grep LISTEN
% netstat -uanp

Don't recognize something? Turn it off, see if anything you care
about breaks.

This is somewhat redundant with nmap tests, of course, but it's
a much more direct way of figuring out what you're cleaning up.

-- greg