Matthew Snelham wrote:
>
> On 14 Jun 2001 10:27 AM or thereabouts, Cam Ellison wrote:
> Yes, those are service names... but netstat *can* tell you the process
> associated with a given connection:
>
> # netstat -ap --inet
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> PID/Program name
> tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 14158/httpd
> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:domain *:* LISTEN 1153/named
> tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 9347/sshd
> tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 24993/inetd
>
> Very useful. (and easier to read than lsof, IMHO)
>
Useful, indeed. Thank you for this.
>
>
> discard is a service left over from the old days, much like a network
> /dev/null. Anything sent to it disappears. It runs out of inetd usually,
> so you can (and probably should) just comment it out of /etc/inetd.conf
>
I did that.
> Also, do you export NFS shares from this machine? If you do not, I
> *strongly* reccomend turning off all of your RPC services. Those daemons are
> just trouble if you don't really need them. (Under debian, these services
> are controlled by the 'nfs-common', 'nfs-user-server', and 'portmap'
> entries in /etc/init.d/)
>
I assume it comes from portmap, because I do not have nfs enabled, and
naturally those executables don't appear in /etc/init.d/
So that takes care of that.
Thank you again. Between you and Jeff, this has been most edifying.
And I like your quote from the Entarteur Extraordinaire
Cheers
Cam
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