On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:40:30PM +0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:02:33 +0300
> > From: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Varshavchick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Getting pid of listening process
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:01:19AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:48:56AM +0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> > > > Hi gurus,
> > > > 
> > > > can anybody make a hint as how pid of a process listening on a specified
> > > > tcp port can be determined? Of cause there are major utilities like lsof
> > > > or sockstat but they gather a lot of extra information and work not too
> > > > fast. What I need ideally would be a small C program which outputs pid
> > > > given a port number as a parameter, can anybody help?
> > > 
> > > Very few things could work faster than lsof(1) with appropriate
> > > command-line options.  I would suggest that you take the time to read
> > > the lsof manual page carefully, then try something like:
> > > 
> > > lsof -nPli 4tcp:25
> > > 
> > > Of course, depending on your needs, you may want to drop the -P, -l or
> > > -n options.
> > 
> > Hit 'send' too fast; if you are only interested in pid's, take a look at
> > the -t option, too :)
> 
> lsof seems to have problems on the server in question, it takes all cpu
> time and never returns for a long time... Installing the latest lsof
> release didn't help :(

Have you actually tried the -n option?  If it hangs with -n, try -b,
too.

G'luck,
Peter

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