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  From: Matthew Tippett <mtippett@ticons.com.au>
  To  : Tristan Ball <Tristan.Ball@vsl.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:45:14 +1000

Re: Tracing a client

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:19:56PM +0930, Tristan Ball wrote:
> G'day all.
> 
> This is not actually a linux question, but I figured with the number of
> clever unix types hanging around here someone may be able to help.
> 
> I need to find out what process is making NIS+ requests on a solaris
> client. I can see the requests going out via a packet sniffer, but I
> can't find any way to see what process is sending them.

The final tool in the Open Source arsenal is 'lsof'.  It trawls the
kernel to extract *lots* of useful information, include socket information
and file system.

Its freshmeat article is

  http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/04/06/891857252.html

And it lives at 

  ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/ 

(And yes it does run very well on Solaris, but remember it must be 
recompiled for the various Solaris releases due to kernel changes.)

Regards,

Matthew
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