[olug] cups problem

Eli Criffield olug at criffield.net
Tue Nov 9 21:31:23 UTC 2004


fuser -n tcp 631 will give you the pid of what is listening on port 631,
but if it doesn't show up with "netstat --inet -nlp" then i'm guessing its
nothing is really binded to 631.

eli

>Thank you,
>
>I tried this and port '631' is not listed.
>
>Don 
>
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:42, David Walker wrote:
> as root "netstat --inet -nlp" will give you a list of listening ports
> with the 
> name of the program listening on that port
> 
> On Tuesday 09 November 2004 01:35 pm, Don Kauffman wrote:
> > I've been having a cups problem the last couple of days.
> >
> > I reinstalled cups after trying LPRng. cups dies with the following
> > message:
> >
> > cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
> >
> > I've done a fair amount of online searching and found that this
> > indicates that something else is already listening on the port that
> > cupsd is configured on (631). I'm looking for a way to find out what
> > else is listening on that port and maybe  what I can do about it. I
> > used
> > to know a command that told me that but I've forgotten it.
> >
> > nmap doesn't do it -- at least none of the options that I've tried
> > work.
> >
> > Thanks anyone,
> >
> > Don Kauffman



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