Can anyone point me to a howto, well not really a howto just a list of things I should be doing or looking for when I am trying to secure a linux box so that it is safe from attack.
If you want to point me to specifics the box is RHE 3 but I only have ssh access it is a remote box so I don't get any of the gui config options that are suppose to make RHE easy to secure with the built in firewall

Any help will be appriciated, sites of our type have been getting hacked and on the last one the mainpage that was put in place said we were next. I am not to worried but you can never be to careful.

chkconfig --list

Go through and disable all the junk you don't need...there's probably 80% of stuff that can be turned off for good that they have on by default for some reason.

From there it's just a matter of setting up iptables to disallow certain things, xwindow forwarding, some other junk.

Have you taken a look at the security references thread here. It's a good place to start for info on general security and server hardening.

Thanks a lot for the help

Oh just a question, what should I turn off like is there some things I should really look for or not. And how do I turn them off? If its with chkconfig, just say so, i will read the man

Here is my listing if it will help you give me hints on what to take out

microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:on 5:off 6:off
syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cpanel 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irda 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
nscd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
psacct 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
isdn 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:off 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ip6tables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
proftpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
smartd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netdump 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
snmptrapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rhnsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cups 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
snmpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
dc_client 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
dc_server 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
aep1000 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
bcm5820 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
squid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
tux 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
bandmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rlx-runctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rlx-agentd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
chkservd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mysql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
portsentry 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ipaliases 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
filelimits 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
spamassassin 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
antirelayd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
exim 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd based services:
pop-3: on
ntalk: on
talk: on
telnet: on
bpcd: on
cpimap: on
vnetd: on
vopied: on
bpjava-msvc: on
krb5-telnet: off
imap: off
imaps: off
ipop2: off
ipop3: off
pop3s: off
eklogin: off
gssftp: off
klogin: off
kshell: off
rsync: off