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Revision as of 14:20, 9 February 2010

Use the `lsof` command to find which process is listening on a given port.

The -n option for `lsof` turns of reverse name resolution which speeds up the output. Otherwise it will try to reverse each IP address to a name.

There are security limitation to the use of `lsof` by non-root users. These limitations depend on how `lsof` was compiled. In general you have to be root or have sudo to use these exaples.

For example, say I saw that some process was already using port 69 (normally TFTP). I did not expect this port to be in use, so I ran the following command to find out which process what listening on port 69:

sudo lsof -n -i :69

To find which process is listening on port 80 (you would expect an HTTP server):

sudo lsof -n -i :80

To see who is connected via SSH or SCP look for port 22:

sudo lsof -n -i :22

You can also look for files opened by a given user or command:

sudo lsof -n -u USER
sudo lsof -n -c COMMAND