[TriLUG] which process is listening on this socket

Alexey Toptygin alexeyt at freeshell.org
Wed Feb 29 14:37:25 EST 2012


On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Steve Holton wrote:

> Hopefully someone knows a trick on this....
>
> netstat shows certain local sockets as open (LISTEN)
>
> I need to know which process is listening to which socket?
>
> Simple: use lsof, right.   Except this is a SVR4 box without it.
>
> Perhaps one of the old and wise from this list remembers a similar command
> for SVR4, or knows a technique to expose the likely culprit?

Not literally SVR4, but a descendant, surely? What's the exact system?

Anyway, does your system have fstat(1)? The netbsd 5.1 manpages suggest 
that that's the best way to do that on that system.

 			Alexey



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