>> > `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append >> > the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output >> > looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp. >> > >> > while true; do >> > netstat -antp | grep ':993 ' >> mystery.log; >> > sleep 1; >> > done; >> > >> > You'll want to change the port -- I tested to make sure that was really >> > logging my Thunderbird connections. >> >> I'm still getting the blocked outbound requests to port 3680 on my >> firewall and I'm running the above script (changed 993 to 3680) on the >> local system indicated by SRC in the firewall log, but mystery.log >> remains empty. I tested the script with other ports and it seems to >> be working fine. >> >> Also the MAC indicated in the firewall log is 14 blocks long and the >> local system in question has a MAC address 6 blocks long according to >> ifconfig, but the 6 blocks from ifconfig do match 6 of the blocks >> reported by the firewall. >> >> Does this make sense to anyone? > > Does not make sense to me, sorry. :-( > > Have you tried running the script on lsof instead?
OK I changed 'netstat -antp' to 'lsof -i'. - Grant
