[ale] Netstat Question

[Dow Hurst]

I just found I have to be root to run fuser successfully.  Why is that?  
Does it look in /proc at a file that is root read only?
Dow


Ian Philpot wrote:

> I have a question about a couple entries that show up when I run 
> netstat. Its on a Debian (sarge) virtual machine (vmware).
>
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
> tcp        0      0 192.168.25.25:38297 
> <http://192.168.25.25:38297>     192.168.25.25:717 
> <http://192.168.25.25:717>       ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.25.25:717 <http://192.168.25.25:717>       
> 192.168.25.25:38297 <http://192.168.25.25:38297>     ESTABLISHED
>
> Why would this b?
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