On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Phill Coxon <[email protected]> wrote: > Linux network / admin help please: > > I am helping to manage a linux VPS which seems to have a mystery > outgoing connection to an ip address that is causing /tmp/ to fill up > with thousands of cookies which eventually causes the VPS to run out of > inodes and crash. > > I've blocked the ip address in the firewall which has prevented new > cookies. > > However, iptables appears to be showing an ongoing amount of outgoing > traffic being dropped. > > Can anyone tell me if there is a simple way to identify what specific > scripts are creating outgoing connections? > > My guess is it will be a wordpress plugin somewhere. > > Any suggestions on how I can debug the source of this traffic would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Phill
while the connections are stil open sudo netstat -tanp you need root (hence sudo) to identify processes run by users other than yourself. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
