How to find what's listening on what port

[Peter Barker]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Mark Hummel wrote:

> The output of netstat -A yields the following line:
> 
> tcp        0      0 *:6000                  *:*                     LISTEN 
> 
> How do I discover what is listening on that port? It does not appear in
> /etc/services. 

That's X. And as Andrew pointed out, the --programs option to netstat.

--programs does not seem to work in all cases - I don't know why. I did
write a program (before I knew about --programs) to walk through /proc to
find which programs had ports bound... basically "portprog 8736" or
"portprog 8736 udp" (defaulting to tcp, of course). If anyone wants it,
give me a yell so I can put some disclaimers on the top ("it works for
me").

> Mark.

Yours,
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