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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:59:39 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1011455737.3e0c77@mired.org>, questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lsof vs. fstat
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0201151155310.13885-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <0a1123649100f12FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> On Monday 14 January 2002 11:21 am, Christopher Schulte wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Use lsof ( /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof ) and HUP only the listening sshd
> > process.
>
> Does lsof have some advantage over fstat?  I posted a while ago mentioning
> lsof, which had been recomemnded to me by regular FreeBSD users, and somebody
> here pointed out that fstat is in the base system.  It seems to do what I
> used lsof for, so I just aliased lsof to fstat when I restaged my machine
> recently.
>
> Am I missing out on something or is fstat just not well-known?

lsof has a whole slew of options and combines functionality of fstat,
netstat and sockstat. It's generally more convenient if you're used to
it.

-- 
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Generalisation is never appropriate.


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