Hi, What a pain, that linux's netstat doesn't give the PIDs/procnames of the clients/daemons that have socket XYZ open?? Unless lsof |grep <port number> finds the client or daemon in question, how else might I find the pid of these tasks? Thanks. Feel'in dumb and useless.. Curt Smith csmith at atl.netchannel.net 770-729-2929 x248