[TriLUG] Learning Linux -- and Netstat

[James Jones]

John

I need to do a lot of reading on sockets especially with what appears
to be around 400.

Thanks for the info.

jcj

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, John Vaughters <jvaughters04 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> JC,
>
> What you are seeing is Unix sockets that are being used by your system to communicate internally. If you want to see TCP/UDP sockets, use
>
> netstat -tup
>
> netstat -tupl  (for listening only sockets)
>
> netstat -tupln (for listening only sockets without name resolution and my personal favorite for troubleshooting tcp services)
>
> If you want to understand the unix sockets, it is a pretty good read and you can find the info on the internet in great quantities.
>
> John Vaughters
>
>
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> Subject: [TriLUG] Learning Linux -- and Netstat
>
>
> All,
>
> I try to learn something new about computers & Linux each day. Today I
> am attempting to understand the information I receive when I do a
> simple netstat . O/S is Ubuntu 12.04
>
> I get about 400 lines that are all similar to this:
>
> unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     56236    @/tmp/dbus-4VS955FsEG
>
> Where can I go to find out what this means and why I have about 400
> lines of this?
>
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