Re: Understanding ps -ef "command" column

On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Douglas McNaught wrote:

> On 2/22/08, David Jaquay <djaquay(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> When I do a ps -ef, in the command column, I see:
>>
>> postgres: postgres dbname 10.170.1.60(57413) idle
>>
>> I get all of this, except the "57413". What does this mean, and more
>> importantly, how can I tie that number back to a connection that I've
>> acquired via JDBC?
>
> At a guess, it's the ephemeral port number used by the client
> connection. It might be hard to track back in Java because I don't
> think the JDBC driver gives you access to the underlying Socket object
> (which you could query to find out its local port).

See the lsof unix tool for a good way to track which processes are
communicating via that port number.

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