macfidelity

Besides netstat which is not that helpful if you need to know the appname you can use lsof

As root enter the following in Terminal:

lsof -i

An example output could look like this:

COMMAND  Ã‚   PID   USER  Ã‚   FD  Ã‚   TYPE  Ã‚  Ã‚   DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
firefox-b 488 fidel  Ã‚   85u   IPv4 0×6dcaa68  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   0t0   TCP 192.168.x.y:RandomPort->www.youtube.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
Cog  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   494 fidel  Ã‚  Ã‚   4u   IPv4 0×688066c  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   0t0   TCP 192.168.x.y:RandomPort->apache2-grog.miata.dreamhost.com:http (CLOSE_WAIT)

Maybe you will reach the point that you need some Linux-based applications like: MC or similar.

Basicly there are two ways to handle this situation:

• Fink
• MacPorts

Today i’ll describe some basic things and steps to get MacPorts working under Mac OS X.

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