[Announce] new Netstat howto
Carla Schroder
carla at bratgrrl.com
Sat Nov 6 05:00:08 EST 2004
Keep an Eye on Your Linux Systems with Netstat
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3430561
"Two of the fundamental aspects of Linux system security and troubleshooting
are knowing what services are running, and what connections and services are
available. We're all familiar with ps for viewing active services. netstat
goes a couple of steps further, and displays all available connections,
services, and their status. It shows one type of service that ps does not:
services run from inetd or xinetd, because inetd/xinetd start them up on
demand. If the service is available but not active, such as telnet, all you
see in ps is either inetd or xinetd: "
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