sudo lsof | grep LISTEN
type your root password, you may need to enable root of you have not already
it will give you a list of what processes are using which ports. Find the process ID number of the
process (number in the second column) that is listening on the port you are interested in and type in
ps ax | grep >pid number>\
That will give you the program that is running.
On my system, Entourage is listening on 3898 while I”m typing this
My guess is that 3888 on your machine is the “Microsoft Database Daemon” which is the mechanism
Office uses to communicate between the various Office Programs, but it may be a different Office
program . Note that the Office software doesn’t always use the same ports each session, except that
the copy protection broadcast always seems to go out to 2222
Claude
On 6/24/05 2:53 PM, "Todd McKerchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is my ip address.
Todd
On Jun 24, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Claude V. Lucas wrote:
Is 192.168.1.107 your IP address or a different one?
Claude
On 6/23/05 6:51 PM, "Todd McKerchar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Michael Spencer wrote:
what does it want to connect to?
This is the message I just got: The application "Microsoft Word" wants to connect to 192.168.1.107 on TCP port 3888
Thanks,
Todd
