netstat command to find if service is running

[gold]

how do find if syslogd is running(active) and what port, ip address, tcp/upd protocol, pid, program and such?

If you run fedora6 what udp port does syslogd run at?

[savage]

To find out if it's running, something like:

ps aux | grep syslogd

should do the job, unless you've changed the default options, I think it uses UDP port 514, and unless you have 2 NICs, it should be listening on your main IP address, 'ifconfig' to check it.

Savage

[gold]

[jeep@localhost temp]$ ps aux | grep syslogd
root 1989 0.0 0.0 1700 588 ? Ss 20:01 0:00 syslogd -m 0

how do I know which port it is running on? This doesn't say much.

[bradchaus]

netstat -p | grep syslog

[gold]

[root@localhost root]# netstat -p|grep syslog
unix 19 [ ] DGRAM 5944 1989/syslogd /dev/log

So 5944 is the port? What the heck. I didn't change the ports. All default setup from fedora.

[gold]

Do I have to add this info into my syslog.conf file have it run on port 514 or it should do it automatically?

syslog 514/udp # Syslogd Port

[gold]

It seems like I have to put the info in /etc/services:

syslog 514/udp

What I have in my /etc/serices is:

syslog-conn 601/tcp # Reliable Syslog Service
syslog-conn 601/udp # Reliable Syslog Service

How do you read the netstat columns. Below output mentions "1988/syslogd", does it mean syslogd running on port 1988?

[root@localhost temp]# netstat -nap |grep syslogd
unix 19 [ ] DGRAM 6002 1988/syslogd /dev/log