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Jamie
Asked: 2011-01-31 09:13:37 +0800 CST

How does one determine active SSH and SAMBA connection counts?

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I have a server that I use infrequently, so I'd like to cron a job to shutdown daily if no users are logged in via SSH and SAMBA shares.

How can I determine how many active SSH connections there are, and how many active SAMBA connections there are?

If both of these values are zero, the cron script will shutdown the server.

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  1. Best Answer

    Active ssh connection:

    # netstat -an | grep -E "\:22[ \t]+" | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l
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    Active Samba connection:

    # netstat -an | grep -E "\:445[ \t]+" | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l

    or use lsof:

    SSHCONNECTION=`lsof -i :22 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l`
SAMBACONNECTION=`lsof -i :445 | grep ESTABLISHED | wc -l`
echo "SSH connection: ${SSHCONNECTION} Samba connection ${SAMBACONNECTION}"
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  2. You can check any active connections to any service by using the following command

    netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | grep ":[portname] " | wc -l

    By portname you need to select the port of the service you're looking into, for SSH that'll be port 22 (so it should be grep ":22 ") (the space behind just makes sure that it's not another port.

    If you want to select more than one port (as it would be in samba) change grep for egrep ":(port|port|port) "

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