[ale] Fuser questions

[James Sumners]

I think that might be your distributions version of fuser. The one
packaged with Debian Lenny isn't showing this behavior for me[1].

[1] -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1038672/lsof-fuser.png

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> I have two questions about the fuser command.
>
> Can anyone explain why fuser identifies the process as running as root
> but ps says it is running as pbr?
>
> $ sudo /sbin/fuser -vn tcp 6013
> here: 6013
>
>                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
> 6013/tcp             root      24376 f....  sshd
>
> $ ps -p 24376 -o '%U'
> USER
> pbr
>
> Can anyone explain what fuser means by "here" and why it does not list
> the two processes that lsof does?
>
> $ /sbin/fuser -vn tcp 51422
> here: 51422
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -i TCP:51422
> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE    DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> sshd    24372 root    3u  IPv4 103565535       TCP foo:ssh->bar:51422
> (ESTABLISHED)
> sshd    24376  pbr    3u  IPv4 103565535       TCP foo:ssh->bar:51422
> (ESTABLISHED)
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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