who's using that port?

[Garrett Cooper]

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Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I came home tonight to find my server with a full /var partition due
> to httpd-error.log being very full of error messages. I cleaned it up,
> and restarted apache to find that it wouldn't bind to ports 80 and 443
> as they were in use.
> 
> netstat -na confirmed that they were, but not by who. There's no -p
> argument to track the pid of the process using the port.
> 
> How do you track that on BSD?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

	sysutils/lsof is helpful in this case. Just grep for the port
number you are looking for.
	Make sure to run it as root though or it will only show a
limited number of open filehandles.
- -Garrett
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