Why not use sockstat instead of netstat?
-Bill
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:57:43PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>
> I've been adding an extra check in my local version of /etc/security for quite
> some time now. All it does is use 'netstat' to grab a list of the listening
> tcp and udp ports of my machine and save it to /var/log/netstat.today
> (and /var/log/netstat.yesterday). This way, when some service starts
> and listens on a new port the next run of /etc/security will log the
> fact in the usual stuff sent to root by mail. I tested this running
> /etc/periodic/daily/450.security twice, and running a local IRC daemon between
> the two runs. The output that is added to the message root receives looks
> like the following:
>
> hades.hell.gr changes in listening ports:
> 4a5,6
> > tcp4 0 0 *.6667 *.* LISTEN
> > tcp4 0 0 *.7325 *.* LISTEN
> 7a10
> > udp4 0 0 *.* *.*
> 10a14
> > udp4 0 0 *.7007 *.*
>
> Does the attached patch below seem interesting to anyone else, too?
> Should I send-pr it, or just keep merging it with my own security checks,
> and leave things as they are?
>
> -giorgos
> Index: security
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/security,v
> retrieving revision 1.55
> diff -u -r1.55 security
> --- security 4 Jul 2001 12:49:17 -0000 1.55
> +++ security 12 Sep 2001 17:25:53 -0000
> @@ -128,6 +128,26 @@
> tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
> [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ] && rc=1
>
> +# Show changes in listening tcp and udp ports:
> +#
> +[ -n "$ignore" ] && cmd="egrep -v ${ignore#|}" || cmd=cat
> +if ( netstat -natl | grep LISTEN | sort ; echo "--"; netstat -na | grep '^udp' |
>sort ) | $cmd > $TMP; then
> + if [ ! -f $LOG/netstat.today ]; then
> + [ $rc -lt 1 ] && rc=1
> + separator
> + echo "No $LOG/netstat.today"
> + cp $TMP $LOG/netstat.today || rc=3
> + fi
> + if ! cmp $LOG/netstat.today $TMP >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> + [ $rc -lt 1 ] && rc=1
> + separator
> + echo "$host changes in listening ports:"
> + diff -b $LOG/netstat.today $TMP
> + mv $LOG/netstat.today $LOG/netstat.yesterday || rc=3
> + mv $TMP $LOG/netstat.today || rc=3
> + fi
> +fi
> +
> # Show denied packets
> #
> if ipfw -a l 2>/dev/null | egrep "deny|reset|unreach" > ${TMP}; then
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