Unix command that lists the files, sockets, and other file-descriptors that processes have open.
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Process continues to hold file after file deletion
I created a log file by running the iostat command to a text file, and ran the command in the background using nohup.
#nohup iostat -xm 5 > /z/logfile.txt &
Later on, I created a cronjob that runs every ten minutes doing the same as above, after I…
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Looking into bash script to log SSH activity
I'm having some suspicious SSH activity, apparently originating from my computer (OSX Sierra)... for this reason I am trying to determine why, and more specifically from where this is happening.
I'm basically looking for something to track ssh…
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Process will not be killed
I have the Jenkins server running on my machine.
I did lsof -i :8080, I took the PID and then I ran sudo kill -9 PID.
However, when I go to localhost:8080 Jenkins is still up and lsof -i :8080 shows a different PID.
I think some other process might…
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why file is not exist but lsof show this file not deleted
stat a linux regular file, target file is not exist. but lsof can found this file, and found a program opened this file. lsof show this file is normal.
I think this file must be deleted, but I cannot understand why lsof show this file is normal.
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Why does netstat report lesser number of open ports than lsof
I have storm running on 2 machines.
Each machine runs nimbus process (fancy for master process) and worker processes.
And I wanted to see the communication between them - what ports are open and how they connect to each other.
$ netstat -tulpn |…
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TCP response not getting sent
We seeing this behavior where all of a sudden our TCP response are not getting sent. Even when the connection is up (i.e We are able to receive request )
The TCP client is connected to server over a VPN. It work most of time but some time we don't…
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lsof -i output *:*?
What is the meaning of the output under the NAME tag of the lsof -i
command when it appears as such *:*
Example output:
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Why does lsof interpret my variables incorrectly?
I'm trying to set up a loop to monitor a file being written by Apple Compressor. Once the file is no longer being written, I'd like to change the name of the directory it's in. However, when I feed a variable containing the filepath to lsof it…
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Wildfly: Many open libraries
I have an Java EE application which runs fine with wildfly 8.2.0 but after some days uptime there are many open files (170000+). After checking the system with "lsof" I found for many lines with open libraries (jar files).
For example:
lsof | grep…
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lsof, grepping output of
To count open epubs I used this:
# - determine how many epubs are open -
NUMBER_OF_OPEN_EPUBS=0
while read -r LINE ; do
if [ "$(echo $LINE | rev | cut -c1-5 | rev)" = ".epub" ]; then
NUMBER_OF_OPEN_EPUBS="$(($NUMBER_OF_OPEN_EPUBS+1))"
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lsof outputs greater than ulimit -Hn
The following commands run in a single session shows lsof size greater than ulimit supported size. How is this possible?
$ lsof | wc -l
226863
$ ulimit -n
200000
$ ulimit -Hn
200000
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Shell Script CentOS - Killing process by reading it's config file and getting the port
I am looping through folders with Java applications and getting the config file for each.
app1/config.yml
app2/config.yml
etc.
I then pull the port from this config file by using:
port= cat app1/config.yml | grep 90 | cut -d: -f2
I want to use…
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Can not get the value of command execution "lsof"
Here is what my program looks like
Reference
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class ExecuteShellCommand {
public static void main(final String[] args) {
final ExecuteShellCommand obj = new…
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Is it possible to deterministically trace how port 80 is forwarded and where the configuration is on a given system?
Is there a way to determine or trace how a port forwarding configuration is set up on a system running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on which there is a NodeJS service running and somehow accepting connections via port 80, although the service itself is running…
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Check if file written by process A is ready to be read by process B
I have a Java script that executes a k-shell which calls a program that writes file A. Thereafter, the same Java script parses output file A. No other process read or writes file A.
The problem is that file A is not always ready to be parsed in…
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