Re: Program to display process information (especially sockets)

From: Frank Gevaerts (frank_at_gevaerts.be)
Date: 12/26/04

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    On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:28:35PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
    > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:19 +0700, David Garamond wrote:
    > > Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process
    > > information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process
    > > and what are their ports/hosts/etc.
    >
    > Probably the best you're going to get is the output of netstat -p.
    >
    > This will tell you process names and numbers for each socket, you can
    > parse that and do what you like with it. If you need it to spit out the
    > info faster, try the -n option, which won't do reverse dns lookups.
    >
    > One thing I would like to know how to do, but I don't think it's
    > possible, is to find out what process is on the other end of a pipe.
    > If that were possible, I could write a graphical system display tool,
    > that shows you all your processes and how they're connected together.

    Try lsof.

    Frank
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