Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:36:46 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about processes Message-ID: <20050410213645.GA27742@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20050410211318.GP23009@weller-fahy.com> References: <20050410211318.GP23009@weller-fahy.com>
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:13:40PM +0200, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote: > How does one determine which process initiated any given network > connection? Or which program (on disk) initiated the process that > initiated the network connection? > > Been searching, but not finding. Read the man page for ps, specifically "ps -j" and variations of. What you are looking for is the ppid, Parent Process ID. Might find a process was started by inetd this way. netstat is the other tool you are looking for, to list open connections. The proc filesystem may also help associate open connections with running processes. man procfs. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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