[plug] Working out what process is listening on a port...

[Trevor Phillips]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Peter Wright wrote:
> 
> > Can someone let me know how you're supposed to work out what processes
> > are listening on a port?
> 
> > tcp        0      0 *:890                   *:*                     LISTEN
> 
> fuser -n tcp 980
> 
> Replace tcp with udp as appropriate

I find lsof to be very handy as well. Like fuser, it looks at open files, and
returns lots of juicy info. eg; the aforementioned fuser gives the pid, but
lsof also looks up the process/app name, plus other info.

lsof -i :890

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