You need to use netstat. This tells you of the status of the ports and
stuff. I think netstat -a is the one you are looking for, but just man
netstat. Also, you don know to look at the /etc/services file for a
general layout?
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Nayan Jain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can you check which service is running on which port of a LINUX
> Server.
>
> In Unixware i used to telnet to a particular port to find out what service
> it is running.
>
> eg. telnet <server ip address> <port no>
>
> UNIX PROMPT>telnet 111.111.11.11 21
>
> It will start as an ftp service and i can interpret that ftp service is
> running on this port.
>
> How can this be done for linux. As i m not able to do the same.
>
> TIA,
>
> Please dont flame me if u feel this is odd question here.
> Nayan Jain
>
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> "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough
> but not baked in the same oven."
> -Yiddish Proverb
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