os x and netstat

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007, Jason Joines wrote:
>    I'm a Linux sysadmin but just took a job where I inherited a bunch 
>of os x boxes.  One of the differences I've noticed is that netstat 
>doesn't display all of the applications listening on network ports.  It 
>does display some and I'm not sure how it picks which ones to display. 
>Does anyone know if this is just an os x thing or do the BSD's do this 
>as well?

First, are you running this as root?

I often use ``lsof -n -i | grep LISTEN'' to see this on OS X,
Linux, and FreeBSD systems as it gives information on the process
listening on the ports.

Bill
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