On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:52 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 4/10/07, Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2007 17:37, Martin Hudec wrote: > > > Siju George wrote: > > > > How Do you actually Identify what process is listening on a TCP/IP port? > > > > "nmap" does not usually give the right answer. > > > > There should be some command that can be run on the local host for > > > > identification right? > > > > > > man lsof > > > > > > 5:35pm [amber] ~# lsof -i @localhost:123 > > > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME > > > ntpd 552 root 10u IPv4 0xc4c46000 0t0 UDP localhost:ntp > > > > Just out of interest, why do so many people recommend lsof, which is a port, > > when sockstat/fstat are in the base system and seem to cover the same > > ground? > > Am I missing something about lsof? > > Linux systems don't have sockstat, so people who got to FreeBSD via > Linux are used to lsof and they tend to continue using it. Same result > for those who read the many Linux howto websites. > > - Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Ironically, coming from linux I found that FreeBSD netstat doesn't support the -l -4 flags, which is how I found out about sockstat -l4 :) Tom
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