Re: see which programs are opening ports

[Cole Tuininga <colet () code-energy com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:27 +0200, Tahis Vera wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using Linux Debian.  I ran nmap on my machine and saw some strange
> ports opened.
> How can i check which programs are opening which ports, in order to
> kill some of them (with ps -aux or top i couldn't see the ports
> programs are using)?

As root, do a:

netstat -tupln

This will tell you what tcp and udp ports are open for listening.  It
will also tell you which process has it open.

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Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
Code Energy, Inc
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