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From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: What's this task running as ?
To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz
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A very helpful command to see what you have running on
your network is "lsof."

"lsof -i tcp" 

That will show all tcp connections currently
listening.  Maybe then you can see the user that is
running the command.

-Donnie

--- rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote:
> Hi - In my inetd.conf I've got ...
> 
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs
> cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver
> 
> .... I'm not expert but I thought this meant that
> when data arrives at the port 
> associated with cvspserver then cvs should be run
> under the userid root.
> 
> However in an O'Reilly book I have to hand it says
> that "the cvs server runs 
> briefly as root" - how can I find out what user it
> runs as once it stops 
> running as root ? It's not visible via ps as it
> starts, does whatever is 
> necessary and then stops.
> 
> I have a problem which I think may be permissions
> related so the owner of the 
> task is of some interest to me.
> 
> regards
> 
> richard shea.


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