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Murali Suriar
Asked: 2009-05-09 01:00:15 +0800 CST

How do I find out what process a listening socket is bound to under Solaris 8?

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On a Solaris 8 server, how do I find out what process is listening on a given port? The Windows implementation of 'netstat' offers the -o and -b switches, which show the owning process ID and name respectively. Is there an equivalent under Solaris?

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  1. Best Answer

    lsof -i

    Doesn't come installed by default, but you can get Solaris version from http://www.sunfreeware.com/

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  2. If you don't want to or can't install lsof, you can also try the command pfiles. It prints out all the sockets open by a given process. If you had no other choice, you could iterate over all the PIDs and find the one listening to, say, port 25:

    PORT=25
for p in $(ps -eo pid)
do
  OUT=$(pfiles $p)
  if [[ "$OUT" =~ port:\ ${PORT} ]]
  then
    echo $p
  fi
done
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