Re: How to find out what service is running on a port
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Sean Kelleher wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got errors that are continually popping up to STDERR about a
> packet being rejected by my firewall, bound for port 65535. this
> behaviour itself is normal -- my firewall should reject this packet --
> but i'd like to know what service this packet hopes to reach. i've
> checked the relevant files (AFAIK -- /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf),
> but don't see anything that applies.
>
> anyone know where i could look to find out which service this is?
>
Well, variations of the 'netstat' command will provide, among other
things, a list of the open sockets. 'netstat -p' shows the process PID and
name of the program with each open socket.
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